25 Aug
2015
25 Aug
'15
7:56 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- | I am trying to use sed to change a value in a pipe. | | ------------------- This is the two line script | CHANGE="1234" | | cat my_file.txt | sed 's/CANCELID/$CHANGE/' > cancel.txt | ------------------- | | and the my_file.txt has: | v1:notificationIdCANCELID</v1:notificationId> | | it gets changed to $CHANGE instead of the actual value 1234 . | I tried putting a \ in front of the $ also and made no difference. | | What am I not doing correctly. | | Thanks, | | jerry
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