Another sed problem

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a problem with a string variable which needs to be replaced with sed. However the string which needs to be replaced is ${INSTHOME}. It does not matter how I try to delimit it it will not accept the string and tries to resolve the contents which of course it cannot.

Any help will be appreciated.

2

How does the command looks like? Try to use double quotes instead of single quotes in your sed command.

Regards

3 
$ cat f5
this is a line with ${INSTHOME} in it.
This is not.

$ $ sed 's/${INSTHOME}/a change /' f5
this is a line with a change  in it.
This is not.
4

It works well with newer versions of sed, try to escape the $ with a backslash:

sed 's/\${INSTHOME}/a change /'

Regards