[PLUG] another bash question

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Richard Kurth wrote:

[snip]
> I changed it to look like this
> A=$(uname -n)
> sed -e '/ServerName localhost/c\
> ServerName "$A"\   #<-I added the double quotes
> ' < httpd.conf
>
> And this is what it looks like when it writes to the httpd.conf file
> ServerName "$A"
> It is not filling in the variable with what is in the variable.

You need it around the whole string, replace your single quotes with
double quotes, the problem is the single quotes which supress
interpretation of the contents of the string between them.  In other
words, this:

 sed -e "/ServerName localhost/c\
 ServerName $A\
 " < httpd.conf


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