Script problem replacing slash and backslash

[YO123]

I'm writing a script with a dynamic creation of a file in a directory giving by the user.

The problem now is that the user can enter whatever directory he wnts, but one file needs to be created from a template in the beginning before the creation command can execute.

I got this far:
In the template there is a creation of a database. The database place is being created dynamically by using the sed command.

The user enter the destination directory: /home/user
but in the sed command this is not accepted. How can I convert this correctly so it works.

sed "s/TEMP/$dstdir/g" $srcdir/file.st > $dstdir/file.st

Thx

YO

 

[ayjaycee]

Don't use "/" as the divider if it's going to be in the strings your supplying.

Try
[tt]sed "s,TEMP,$dstdir,g" $srcdir/file.st > $dstdir/file.st[/tt] One by one, the penguins steal my sanity. X-)

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[YO123]

Tnx,

Learned something new today.