Re: sed :(

[Sjors Gielen <mailinglist@dazjorz.com>]

josep schreef:
> why isn't it working? :(
>
> sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com 
> <http://andare.fugue.com>";/send host-name $(cat /etc/hostname)/g" 
> /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

You're using quotes inside quotes. Try this:

sed -i "s/#send host-name "\""andare.fugue.com"\"";/send host-name 
"\""$(cat /etc/hostname)"\""/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

You forgot quotes once, and you need to escape the quotes inside the 
quotes, and in Bash you do it the way I mentioned; "\"".

Sjors