[PLUG] another bash question

[Richard Kurth]

Hello Shannon,

Tuesday, August 06, 2002, 1:18:56 PM, you wrote:


SCD> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Richard Kurth wrote:

SCD> [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.

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

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

Ok I changed it to look Like this
A=$(uname -n)
sed -e "/ServerName localhost/c\
ServerName $A\  
" < httpd.conf

and this is the error I get now
sed: -e expression #1, char 24: Extra characters after command


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 Richard                            mailto:rkurth at starband.net