Re: sed :(

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:21:18PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> josep wrote:
>> > why isn't it working? :(
>> > 
>> > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat
>> > /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
>> 
>> your quotes don't match. (There are probably other issues as well.)
> 
> They actually do. Perfectly.
> 
>   echo "hello "world" !"
> 
> is the same as:
> 
>   echo "hello world !"
> 
> Though the OP probably wanted:
> 
>   echo "hello \"world\" !"
> 
> (As someone else in the thread already noted)
> 

Oh, this is nonsense

we would then use echo to do the job of sed, wouldn't we?

regards