Question

I have file File1.txt in which i have to replace a text using sed command

File1.txt contents

EURAMOUNTTOBEREPLACED

I have a AIX shell script for replacing the text AMOUNTTOBEREPLACED

Contents of the shell script

sum=27
sed 's/AMOUNTTOBEREPLACED/"$sum"/g'  File1.txt >> temp
mv temp FileNew.txt

After executing the script, the contents of FileNew.txt is as below

EUR"$sum"

But Expected output should be

EUR27

Please help how to do?

Answer 1

use the below sed command instead:

sed -e "s/AMOUNTTOBEREPLACED/\"${sum}\"/g"