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Hi.

I want to replace the OrigFbPanel-Section with the NewFbPanel-Section in the code below. Presented Code-"solution" did not work.

Any hint, what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

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[seaside]

RSH,

Maybe double quotes-

[RSH]

Unfortunately not.

I have tried already this:

[amigo]

You need to use double quotes on the *outside* part of the sed command. Since the replace values are represented as variables they should be expanded by the shell before being passed to sed. Your use of single quotes prevents the shell from doing this.
Should do what you want:

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[seaside]

RSH,

It looks like the last quoting by Amigo is right, so there is probably something in the variables causing the error.

[amigo]

May be simpler to simply read the original file line-by-line while writing the contents to a new file and inserting your changes at the right time/place. May be that you need to escape the instances of '>' chars. I believe I'd use a nice little read/check-for-right-place/write op for that. sed could be made useful to do it, but pure shell-manipulation will be much simpler too achieve

Yeah, shell scripting can be used by Lazy people, but as soon as you want to do some serious changes, you can't be a Lazy coder. It's kind like the difference between being a Slacker and being the guy who creates Slack -or vice-versa. If you want to make things simple for your user, then you need to do complex things for them (very anti-Slack behaviour). Or, *you* can be the Slacker and makes users do things for themselves. Slack-user!=Slack-creator. Alles Klar?

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