Re: sed with Variable Substitution in the command

[Alan D. Salewski]

On 2024-09-21 13:54:41, "Alan D. Salewski" <salewski@att.net> spake thus:
[...]
> Sometimes using the braces would "look odd" to experienced shell
> folks, and are omitted by convention:
>
>     echo $1 $2 $3              # looks "odd"
                                          ^^^
s/odd/normal/

>     echo "$1" "$2" "$3"        # same here, and safer in general
>
>     echo ${1} ${2} ${3}        # looks "odd"
>
>     echo "${1}" "${2}" "${3}"  # ditto
[...]


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