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need help with sed problem



Hello all

I need to use sed to replace a given line in a text file with the
current working directory. But this is getting quite tricky. Problem
ilustrated below:

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$ cat text.txt 
aaaa
bbbb:/some/wrong/path/
cccc

$ sed s/bbbb.*/bbbb:$TERM/ text.txt
aaaa
bbbb:xterm
cccc

jmf@squeeje:~$ sed s/bbbb.*/bbbb:$PWD/ text.txt
sed: -e expression #1, char 16: unknown option to `s'
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I'd like to have

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aaaa
bbbb:/home/myself
cccc
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Can anyone help ? thanks in advance.

Joao



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