On 2006-08-21, Andy B wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Wonder if you can , this problem is getting me down.
>
> My script is falling over with a sed problem.
>
> NEWSTORE=JvHCdEMzDegPI
> NPASS=EoWH/Q4hds7nA
>
> sed -e '/bill/s/'"${NEWSTORE}"'/'"${NPASS}"'/g' /tmp/temp
>
> The above sed command works fine when there are no "special characters"
> but when they appear as above i get a sed: command garbled: error.
> Tried a few things with no luck, to escape theses.

That's bacause $NPASS contains a slash. Use a different delimiter
with sed:

sed -e "/bill/s|${NEWSTORE}|${NPASS}|g" /tmp/temp

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