Re: sed :(

[Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>]

On Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 18:14:54 +0100, 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

  Because you've got nested quotes.  e.g. This fails:

  sed -i "s/"bob"/"chris"/g" /tmp/blah

  You need to escape the quotes inside your search/replace section.

  e.g to change "bob" to "chris" (including the quotes) you'd need:

  sed -i "s/\"bob\"/\"chris\"/g" /tmp/blah

Steve
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