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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sed question
Keywords: sed, regexp, Pnews, Rnmail
Message-ID: <938@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 89 09:31:50 GMT
References: <17810@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <17810@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> jhc@Vax5.CIT.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos, Jr.) writes:
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|I'm having difficulty getting the sed line correct.  Specifically, I want
|sed to find the line that starts Reply-To: and then replace any instances of
|() with ($REALNAME) where $REALNAME is the value of the environmental
|variable REALNAME, and where the parenthesis are in the file.
   []

sed '/^Reply-To:/s/()/('$REALNAME')/g' your_file

Since the $REALNAME is outside quotes, it is expanded by the shell.

    Leo.