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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: <942@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 17:00:36 GMT
References: <17810@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <938@philmds.UUCP> <4094@omepd.UUCP>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <4094@omepd.UUCP> merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) writes:
|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.

If you had taken the trouble to read my own follow-up (sent out 5 min.
later, where I use the " quoting too), this reply hadn't been
necessary. You were probably as hasty to reply to my article as I
was to get it out 8-). Perhaps I'd better cancelled the first message ...

		Leo.