Okay...I don't get it. I'm trying to format a date using sed. When I do
the command from the command line, it works. But when I try it within the
sed statement, I get a message saying:
sed: command garbled: s/NEWDAY/Wednesday,05/30/2001/g
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Any sed proficient folks out there who could lend a brain cell to this?
Here's the sed statement:
eval "sed s/NEWDATE/`date +%A,%m/%d/%Y`/g infile > outfile"
I've tried escaping the /s like this:
eval "sed s/NEWDATE/`date +%A,%m\/%d\/%Y`/g infile > outfile"
and get the same error. Anyone out there understand what sed's said? I
know what I said to sed when I saw this. "Say what?"
TIA,
Nancy
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