[PLUG] another bash question

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Don Buchholz wrote:

> Richard Kurth wrote:
> >
> > Ok I removed the backslash after $A so it looks like this
> > A=$(uname -n)
> >  sed -e "/ServerName localhost/c\
> >  ServerName $A
> >  " < httpd.conf
> >
> >  and I still get the
> >  sed: -e expression #1, char 24: Extra characters after command
[snip]
>
>   sed -e "/ServerName localhost/c\\
>   ServerName $A
>   " < httpd.conf
[snip]

While Don was sorting this out, it occurred to me to ask what it was you
were trying to do (I had just been looking at it from a Bash perspective)
Wouldn't it be both simpler and cleaner to do this instead:

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

or am I missing something?

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