Re: sed – using variables containing "/"

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/2/12 PleegWat <pleegwat at telfort.nl>:
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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…
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> I'm not aware of an elegant solution in sed. You can do this in awk
> however:
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> awk -v MyVar="${MyVar}" '{ gsub( /\$1/, MyVar ); print }' -
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> Basically -v allows you to pass a shell variable into an awk variable,
> which removes escaping concerns.

I have realised since a while ago that awk is much more than first
meets the eye. Maybe I should invest some time in really trying to
understand it better.
Thanks for your suggestion, and thanks also to Avi who also replied.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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