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ksh - var subs for input file
Name: Rik Bitter Date: August 20, 2008 at 10:58:45 Pacific OS: sunos CPU/Ram: na Product: na
Comment:
Supppose I had a file that looked like:
See Spot ${verb} ${verb} Spot ${verb}
How would you read the file from a ksh script where verb is defined then output the file with verb's value substituted. Any ideas?
Name: nails Date: August 20, 2008 at 20:49:58 Pacific
Reply:
#!/bin/ksh
str="\${verb}" rep="mystr" sed -e "s/${str}/${rep}/g" file.txt
The tricky part is escaping the dollar sign to take away the special meaning:
str="\${verb}"
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Response Number 2
Name: Rik Bitter Date: August 21, 2008 at 05:20:12 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the response. I managed to get around the problem using a similar solution. The problem is that the actual file had several differnt variables in it so every case had to be specifically coded. I was hoping there was a way to get the shell to do the variable substitution for me.
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