variable passing to sed

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I m trying to pass variable to sed.
export var=140920060731
sed -e '/$var/d' file
but no luch so far..? any body has any idea abt it

Is there any way to pass variable to SED?

Thanks ,
Manish

2

use double-quotes.
and why exact do you need to 'export'?

3

Guys I got it , it is sorry with ""
sed -e "/$var/d"

thanks a lot