Problem in using sed commnad in bash program.

[Aruna]

hi All,

here is my problem
I try to use "sed" command as followig but I got error!

path=(`pwd`)
.
.
sed 's/home\/aruna\/WORK\/GUI_test\/testharness/($path)/g' run.tcl >> run1.tcl


I cann't figure out what is the problem with this. When I print path on screen it was having a correct value.

I think the problem is that path is having "/" characters inside it.

can you please give me a solution for this?

Thanks,
Aruna.

[vsemaska]

That's right, the slash is causing you problems since you're using it as the delimiter in the substitute command in sed. Use something that probably won't appear in the pathname like %

sed "s%home\/aruna\/WORK\/GUI_test\/testharness%$path%g" run.tcl >> run1.tcl

Also, use double quotes instead of single quotes. Single quotes prevent variable expansion. Also, the ()'s aren't needed.