string replacement doesn't work with a variable

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On 2/9/06, Marcel Fritzenwallner <linux at fritzenwallner.org> wrote:
> Thanks a lot!
>
> This little thing cost me many hours, now it's working even with "sed":
>
> sed -i "s/ABC/$VAR/" file.txt
> perl -pi'.bak' -e "s/ABC/$VAR/g" file.txt

Good deal. Just remember to be careful about what you expand the
variable to since that has the potential to mess up the syntax of the
perl or sed command. For example, if $VAR has a / character in it
mayhem will ensue.

More information about expansion of variables should be available in
the man page for the shell you are using too.

John