sed in BASH

[krava]

Hi all,

I am trying to enable this BASH function which use sed command


function cdc{
eval $x=\"$(sed 's_\\_/_g' $1)\"
cd $x
}

USAGE: cdc c:\users\us2\



Aim is to replace c:\users\us2\ into c:/users/us2/ to be executable by Cygwin. I am not sure why this does not work. Any idea?


Thanks
Krava

 

[columb]

It doesnt work because sed is trying work on the contents of a file called $1
Try

function cdc{
    eval $x=\"$(echo $1 | sed 's_\\_/_g')\"
    cd $x
}

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Columb Healy

 

[krava]

thanks for reply

this is the output I get:

bash: /home/ovince/.bashrc: line 112: syntax error near unexpected token `eval'
bash: /home/ovince/.bashrc: line 112: ` eval $x=\"$(echo $1 | sed 's_\\_/_g')\"'


The same error message I got for my version

 

[columb]

This works for me

function cdc() { cd $(echo $1 | sed 's_\\_/_g'); }

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