I'm writing my first ever script so I'm a bit of a novice, hopefully this problem is simple: I need to take a number from one file, and place it in a specific location in another. I've got the script to extract the number, and intended to use something like sed to find the particular character string I want to replace with this number. The proble is that the new string will be a number that I don't know, hence I can't just write the sed command to replace a specific character string. I'm trying to define the replacement number as a variable that's set as an awk command: VAR1= `awk 'NR==2 {print $1}' filename.plt` and then use: sed (/string/,$VAR1,/string/) but I get permission denied messages. I can run the exact same awk command myself, but it doesn't seem to like it in the script. Any suggestions? Should I try a whole new track? Thanks in advance

Give the files full permission by typing: chmod 777 filename

thanks immulett but it still gives me execute permission denied message. should I try a different approach?