why isn't it working?

sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:14:54PM +0100, josep wrote:
> why isn't it working?
>
> sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat
> /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

What is it supposed to do?

What does it do in practice?

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josep wrote:
> why isn't it working?
>
> sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat
> /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

your quotes don't match. (There are probably other issues as well.)


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josep schreef:

why isn't it working?

sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com
<http://andare.fugue.com>";/send host-name $(cat /etc/hostname)/g"
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf




You're using quotes inside quotes. Try this:

sed -i "s/#send host-name """andare.fugue.com""";/send host-name
"""$(cat /etc/hostname)"""/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf


You forgot quotes once, and you need to escape the quotes inside the
quotes, and in Bash you do it the way I mentioned; """.


Sjors


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wow ^ ^ Thanks for the quick replies




it works!

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:21:18PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> josep wrote:
> > why isn't it working?
> >
> > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat
> > /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
>
> your quotes don't match. (There are probably other issues as well.)

They actually do. Perfectly.

echo "hello "world" !"

is the same as:

echo "hello world !"

Though the OP probably wanted:

echo "hello "world" !"

(As someone else in the thread already noted)

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