Re: general unix question (sed)

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From: Joseph S. D. Yao
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <3tq1pt$tp@clarknet.clark.net>,
aka campbell <indierok@clark.net> wrote:
>OLD='Jun 9 15:57'
>NEW='Jul 9 10:10'
>sed s/"$OLD"/"$NEW"/g file >newfile  
>but it won't work within a script...sed: command garbled: s/June 9 15:57

Assuming that the quotes are just to keep the strings in the variables
together, and aren't part of the text being replaced, this should be
exactly correct.  I suspect that there's something you're not telling
us.  Are, e.g., the quotes being evaluated out and then the string
being eval'ed?  Is the "$PATH" correct?  etc.

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Joe Yao				jsdy@cais.com - Joseph S. D. Yao

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From: jsdy@cais2.cais.com (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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