25 Aug
2015
25 Aug
'15
7:54 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
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.
You need to use double quotes:
cat my_file.txt | sed "s/CANCELID/$CHANGE/" > cancel.txt