On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 08:25, Greg wrote: > It has been a while since I have used sed but i think that pipes > supposed to be '/' (slashes) > another thing is to use single quotes in bash if you using string literally. > You can use anything other than / Sed will use whatever character follows the s My example doesn't fully illustrate my command. Really, what i wanted to do is to sedrules="s/^source[[:blank:]]\"/source \"$NEWROOT\//;p" Basically, change "arch/i386/Kconfig" to "kernel-tree/arch/i386/Kconfig" I used | to it is a bit more easier to read. I want to be able to leave NEWROOT as a variable so the script is a bit more extensible, but bash and sed won't have it :)