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i have one variable e.g. 

var1="<envpath>/home/genl/jeenk[path]/OT/</envname>"

and having <envpath>/home/genl/jeenk[path]/OT/</envname> entry in file.txt

but if i try to change this by using sed command its not changed.

e.g.

sed -i "s|$var1|/home/genk/g" file.txt

what could be the solution to this, to escape [ & ] in var?

Hauke Laging
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Aditya Jain
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    -bash-4.4$ var1=$(echo "${var1/]/\\]}") -bash-4.4$ echo $var1 /home/genl/jeenk\[path\]/OT -bash-4.4$ You may use both substitution for opening & closing brackets before applying to you sed command – francois P Jan 22 '18 at 19:50

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