sed – using variables containing "/"

[PleegWat]

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On 02/12/2012 07:53 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> So, if the variable MyVar contains a ”/”, sed will fail and a 
> workaround is to use another character instead of the ”/”
> character for sed, like in this case, ”@”. Is this the only
> workaround in this case or is there a more elegant one? The
> variable ”MyVar” must not be changed in any way, other than that,
> everything is allowed, I suppose…

I'm not aware of an elegant solution in sed. You can do this in awk
however:

awk -v MyVar="${MyVar}" '{ gsub( /\$1/, MyVar ); print }' -

Basically -v allows you to pass a shell variable into an awk variable,
which removes escaping concerns.

PleegWat
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