Multline Bash Variable Replacement

I’ve recently needed to append several lines of data to a SAS data step that I collected and built via a shell script. For search-and-replace in bash I typically use sed, but this time I ran into a problem - sed does not like multiline shell variables. Thanks to Stack, I found a way to accomplish this task using awk instead. ...

Mar 16, 2022 · 2 min · 244 words · D. Michael Senter