Think about this, you want to replace “XXX” with a path like “/path/to/YYY” in a file. Your file looks like this: XXX AAA XXX Your bash script looks like this: NEW_PATH=”/path/to/YYY” VAR=”XXX” sed -e ‘{s/$VAR/$NEW_PATH/g}’ your_file Well, it won’t work, since single quotes ‘ will force bash to keep variables as-is. Ok, we try to […]