Thanks a lot! This little thing cost me many hours, now it's working even with "sed": sed -i "s/ABC/$VAR/" file.txt perl -pi'.bak' -e "s/ABC/$VAR/g" file.txt Marcel Quoting inode0 <inode0@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 2/9/06, Marcel Fritzenwallner <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to replace a string in a file, the problem is that the replacement > is a > > variable, and this doesn't work. I could not get it working with sed nor > with perl. > > > > Can anyone help me? > > ----------------------------------------- > > perl -pi'.bak' -e 's/ABC/$VAR/g' file.txt > > ----------------------------------------- > > Try > > perl -pi'.bak' -e "s/ABC/$VAR/g" file.txt > > instead. Double quotes allow the expansion of $VAR to occur. > > John > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
