On 30-Jan-2001 William Leese wrote: > hi all > > i need a little help on a script. the following scripts function is to merge > several parts of a html page together and insert a new piece of text from > text.txt also it has to replace some words (the title, author, submittor, and > date) with the words given at prompt. > > (i'm aware that its crude and basic, but i'm not familar with scripting for > bash though i'm working through the HOWTO) > > the problem is that the variables TITLE AUTHOR SUBMITTOR DATE are not > replaced with the inputted values, where as FILENAME is so i must have the > synax wrong the "/"s perhaps? >
<personal nitpick> your script is actually a /bin/sh script and uses no special bash features. </> $ export FOO="Hi" $ echo 'bye cruel world!' | sed -e "s/bye/$FOO/" Hi cruel world! The problem is you used "'" as your quote char aka single quotes. In shell, single quote means "pass me along without looking". You want double quotes like I used.
