[NTLUG:Discuss] change words on every line in a file

[Rusty Haddock]

Fred James wrote:
    > #!/bin/sh
    > v='9899'
    > cat file | while read s1 s2
    > do
    > if [ "$s2" != "$v" ]; then
    >     echo $s1 '--' $s2
    >    cat  "$s1" ' ' "$IPADDR" >> file
    >    sed -i '/$s2/ d' file

If you want shell variable substitution to occur, the sed command '/$s2/ d'
will need to be in double quotes ("), not single, otherwise the dollar sign
is passed to sed's regular expression parser.

Oh, and where is $IPADDR getting defined??

	-Rusty-
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