Re: for loop and sed

> > for user in '/bin/ls /home'; do
>
> are those backticks?
>
> > cp /var/spool/cron/nengland /var/spool/cron/$user
> > sed -i 's/nengland/$user/' $user
>
> sed -i 's/nengland/'$user'/' $user
>
> Single quotes inhibit variable expansion, so you need to get outside the
> quotes :).
>
> Just thought I'd point it out because you can't always used double-quote
> as Kurt suggested.


Yes, they are backticks. I used double quotes and it worked great. Thanks
guys!
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