> Hi! > I have a problem with the following sed snippet > sed -i s"|^\( *PATH="\)\(.*\)|\1$ADD:\2|" ~/profile-test > I need soft quotes in order for $ADD to expand and I also need to math > against one doublequote in the regexp in for $ADD to be put in the > corrct place. Does anyone know how to do this? > >You may want to consider putting the sed script in a file and using the -f script (or --file=script) option instead.No quoting needed. ;) -- Bob McGowan
BTW, since Squeeze default shell is dash, not bash -- Tomas Kral <thomas.kral@email.cz>