[olug] sed issues inside of a script

Luke -Jr luke at dashjr.org
Tue Nov 13 22:46:11 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 13 November 2007, John Hobbs wrote:
> Also, thanks Luke-Jr.  I was playing with that and I never knew you
> could do substitutions on a string by treating it as an array like
> that.  Very cool.

No array functionality involved... ${var} is the "standard" way to do variable 
references of any kind in bash, deprecating the sh standard of $var and most 
of the modifiers within {} are still expecting a normal scalar value.



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