How use variable in sed command?

Asked Mar 03 '17 at 20:28

Active Mar 03 '17 at 20:31

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I want to use this command:

sed 's/account.db/$PATH/' file1 > file2

and

sed 's/account.db/$PATH.account.db/' file3 > file4

But I dont know how to use it.

edited Mar 03 '17 at 20:31

Zanna

asked Mar 03 '17 at 20:28

ahmad

Replace your single quotes with double quotes. (see Difference between single and double quotes in Bash) – David Myers Mar 03 '17 at 20:38
@Zanna i changed ' by " but it has error – ahmad Mar 03 '17 at 20:38
@Zanna this error:sed: -e expression #1, char 15: unknown option to `s' – ahmad Mar 03 '17 at 20:40
You need to use a different delimiter because the PATH contains / characters. Do it like this sed "s#foo#$bar#" (oops the PATH has colons too!) – Zanna Mar 03 '17 at 20:41

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