sed & script help

[vjy]

I am trying to write a script to access sqlplus and use the output to replace the result in another file. But I am having some issues with it (This script is just a test script and I am just trying to print the updated value.

#!/bin/bash

I am not able to post the sqlplus connection, but it works.
bb=$a
echo a is $a
echo bb is $bb

var=he-llo

echo "goodbye friend" | sed "s/goodbye/$var/"

echo "goodbye friend" | sed "s/goodbye/$bb/"


The output I get is

a is 30-APR-10
bb is 30-APR-10
he-llo friend
sed: -e expression #1, char 10: unterminated `s' command

I am not sure why the last statement alone is not executing. Am I missing something?

Thanks.

[barbus]

[root@server ~]$ bb="30-APR-10"
[root@server ~]$ echo "goodbye friend" | sed -e "s/goodbye/$b/"
30-APR-10 friend
[root@server ~]$

So I don't see any problems.
Where do you assign $bb?

[vjy]

Thanks for the reply. I am assigning bb=$a in the 2nd line.

Anyways it seems escaping the newlines did the trick.

bb=${bb//$'\n'/}

Thanks again.