On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote:
subtitle...fun with sed
I have a list of changes to make to a file...
dc rc
------------- -------
15T6145V DELETED
NATL19502 DELETED
Q10MR11/FL12V DELETED
Q1500T3/CL120 DELETED
and things work until I get to the 3rd item which has a forward slash
and it fails to substitute with commands like below...
sed -i "s%${dc}%${rc}%g" ARsalesorderdetails.csv
and
sed -i "s/${dc}/${rc}/g" ARsalesorderdetails.csv
The latter producing error on screen...
sed: -e expression #1, char 17: unknown option to `s'
While the former simply doesn't complain but doesn't make the change
either.
Is there a way to coerce sed to identify & replace strings with a /
inside?
I don't think it is sed that is giving you a problem:
$ echo "Q10MR11/FL12V "|sed "s|Q10MR11/FL12V|DELETED|"
DELETED
Perhaps bash is not resolving your use of the ${dc} and ${rc}
variables as you expect. Since you do not include the full string of
commands and I never use ${}, I don't know what the problem is.
Dave