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graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 10,672

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sed usage confusion [SOLVED]

I want to insert the contents of a file into another file via sed.  This works:

#!/bin/bash
cd /foo
tree -DC -T "Title" -H "http://url" --charset=utf8 -o /tmp/junk

cd /tmp
sed '/<h1>/ {
r /home/facade/addition
d
}' <pre >index.html

What I can't seem to do is substitute $HOME into that read statement to make it user independent.  Any sed gurus out there know how to pull it off?

Last edited by graysky (2011-01-29 17:54:09)

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falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: sed usage confusion [SOLVED]

It's an issue of shell quoting, and not specific to sed:

#!/bin/bash
cd /foo
tree -DC -T "Title" -H "http://url" --charset=utf8 -o /tmp/junk

cd /tmp
sed '/<h1>/ {
r '"$HOME"'/addition
d
}' <pre >index.html

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graysky

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From: :wq

Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 10,672

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Re: sed usage confusion [SOLVED]

@falconindy - Nice, thanks for that.  Works great.

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