Unix Programming - Re: how to use "sed" to replace old directory to new directory in a file

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Re: how to use "sed" to replace old directory to new directory in a file

2006-06-30, 7:25 am

thanx .... i got the answer by trying as u said

if i use : instaed of # .... i can get the correct answer

Jim Cochrane wrote:
> On 2006-06-30, sk <sangeetha.kolandasamy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Looks like you missed something. (In case you don't know, many programs
> that take regexes [sed, ed, ex, etc.] allow use of delimiters other than
> '/' - so the suggestion is to use '#' instead of '/'.)
>
> I had to try it out to make sure this works (since you seem to be implying
> that it doesn't) in the context you're discussing - works fine for me with
> this test script on FC 4:
>
> oldpath=/user/xxxx/yyyy/zzzz/aaaa/bbbb/.cccc
> newpath=/wwww/qqqqq/pppp/rrrrr/ssss/tttt/.lllll
>
> echo $oldpath|sed "s#$oldpath#$newpath#"
> exit 0
>
>
> You're doing it the hard way.
>
>
>
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