On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:46:04 +0000 Joao Ferreira gmail <joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>jmf@squeeje:~$ sed s/bbbb.*/bbbb:$PWD/ text.txt >sed: -e expression #1, char 16: unknown option to `s' Hello, this is because $PWD gets expanded by shell before sed gets called, so what actually gets executed is: sed s/bbb.*/bbbb:/home/myself/ text.txt ...which is obviously syntactically incorrect. To get result you want, try using different separator character than /, for example the comma, or underscore: $ sed s,bbb.*,bbbb:$PWD, text.txt $ sed s_bbb.*_bbbb:$PWD_ text.txt -- Andrej Kacian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110318185908.2f959df8@penny
