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On dc.org.linux-users chazz@cais.com (Charles Meredith) posts:
 > 
 > indierok@clark.net (aka campbell) wrote:
 > 
 > >ok... i'm trying to do this from within a bash script... 
 > >first of all it works fine from the commmand line:
 > 
 > >OLD='Jun 9 15:57'
 > >NEW='Jul 9 10:10'
 > >sed s/"$OLD"/"$NEW"/g file >newfile  
 > 
 > 	   I'm not sure, but I think this should be:
 > 
 > 		sed s/\"$OLD\"/\"$NEW\"/g file >newfile
 > 
 > 	   Let me know if it works....

That would expand to

	sed s/"Jun 9 15:57"/"Jul 9 10:10"/g

which only gives you s/"Jun as the sed script (plus some garbage
leftover), which isn't what you want.  The shell will expand the
environment variables inside of the quotes around a *single*
string. which is what sed's expecting: sed -e "s/$OLD/$NEW/g".

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