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From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: shell script question
Summary: Use double quotes to protect variable name
Message-ID: <1598@fallst.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 90 12:08:59 GMT
References: <652@sagpd1.UUCP>
Organization: Fallston, MD
Lines: 18

In article <652@sagpd1.UUCP>, jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:
> I have a list of files in which I want to change the word 'foo' to the filename.
> What I tried to do was
> 
> foreach i (list of files)
> 	sed 's/foo/$i/' < $i > tmp
> 	mv tmp $i
> end
> 
Try sed "s/foo/$i/" < $i > tmp

The single quotes in your command don't allow variable substitution.  The
shell ignores any otherwise special characters inside single quotes.

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