Re: sed :(

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:21:18PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> josep wrote:
> > why isn't it working? :(
> > 
> > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat
> > /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
> 
> your quotes don't match. (There are probably other issues as well.)

They actually do. Perfectly.

  echo "hello "world" !"

is the same as:

  echo "hello world !"

Though the OP probably wanted:

  echo "hello \"world\" !"

(As someone else in the thread already noted)

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