sed question

[Leo de Wit]

In article <17810 at vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> jhc at Vax5.CIT.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos, Jr.) writes:
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|I'm having difficulty getting the sed line correct.  Specifically, I want
|sed to find the line that starts Reply-To: and then replace any instances of
|() with ($REALNAME) where $REALNAME is the value of the environmental
|variable REALNAME, and where the parenthesis are in the file.
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sed '/^Reply-To:/s/()/('$REALNAME')/g' your_file

Since the $REALNAME is outside quotes, it is expanded by the shell.

    Leo.