sed string replacements

[Scott Haneda]

>> Thanks.  Well, at least it is not just me that is getting stuck on this one.  I have tried the above, with ' and with " to no promising results.
>> 
>>   $cat maker 
>>   #!/bin/bash
>>   VERSION_HEADER=`cat VERSION.header`
>>   #echo "$VERSION_HEADER"
>> 
>>   sed -e "s/_VERSION_HEADER_/$VERSION_HEADER/" DOCUMENTATION
>> 
>> $./maker 
>> sed: 1: "s/_VERSION_HEADER_/# Hi ...": unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
> 
> Yup, sed doesn't do multiline replacements easily.
> 
> I'd probably write a php or perl script to do this; much more flexible than a shell script.

Yeah, you know what, for the time I have put into figuring this out, and the time it would take me to even get up to speed in it with perl, I think I may just do that.  I can deal with this entire thing in php in the time I have put into a one liner in bash, which still does not work.

I have been using php more and more for local shell scripts.  For some reason it feels a little dirty and not like the exactly right way to do it... If it works, it works.

Thanks for bringing this up, sometimes I get stuck in a line of thought and don't bother to look and see what other hammers are in my tool bag.
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