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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sed question
Keywords: sed, regexp, Pnews, Rnmail
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Date: 29 Jan 89 19:58:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)

In article <938@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds (Leo de Wit) writes:
| sed '/^Reply-To:/s/()/('$REALNAME')/g' your_file
| 
| Since the $REALNAME is outside quotes, it is expanded by the shell.

Including the spaces.  This will break for REALNAME="Randal L. Schwartz".
Try instead:

  sed "/^Reply-To:/s!()!(${REALNAME-$USER})!g" your_file

where "!" should probably be replaced with a control-G or some other
very very unlikely character in REALNAME for safety.

Enjoy.
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