[CentOS] sed question

[John R Pierce]

On 8/25/2015 10:50 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:
> ------------------- 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:notificationId>CANCELID</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.

use " instead of '.  inside ', a $ is just a literal.  inside ", $NAME 
gets substituted.



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