On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:21:18PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > josep wrote: > > why isn't it working? :( > > > > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat > > /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf > > your quotes don't match. (There are probably other issues as well.)
They actually do. Perfectly. echo "hello "world" !" is the same as: echo "hello world !" Though the OP probably wanted: echo "hello \"world\" !" (As someone else in the thread already noted) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org