Sed not working inside bash script
- by Isabelle
Hello.
I believe this may be a simple question, but I've looked everywhere and tried some workarounds, but I still haven't solved the problem.
Problem description:
I have to replace a character inside a file and I can do it easily using the command line:
sed -e 's/pattern1/pattern2/g' full_path_to_file/file
But when I use the same line inside a bash script I can't seem to be able to replace it, and I don't get an error message, just the file contents without the substitution.
#!/bin/sh
VAR1="patter1"
VAR2="patter2"
VAR3="full_path_to_file"
sed -e 's/${VAR1}/${VAR2}/g' ${VAR3}
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you very much for your time.
