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Added more details about the file.
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So right now I have a variable

var1='batman'

I also have a file wrong.txt that reads as follows

SupermanJohn="Superman lives in Gotham City."
Superman'sJohn="Superman's parents were killed in Crime Alley."
SupermanJames="Superman hasdoes not have a bat-mobile."

Now I want to change the file's contents using sed. Obviously, I need to replace Superman with batman. I tried doing it with sed, but there were no changes made to the file.

Here is what I did

sed -i -e "s/SupermanJohn=\"Superman/$var1John=\"$var1/g" wrong.txt

So right now I have a variable

var1='batman'

I also have a file wrong.txt that reads as follows

Superman lives in Gotham City.
Superman's parents were killed in Crime Alley.
Superman has bat-mobile.

Now I want to change the file's contents using sed. Obviously, I need to replace Superman with batman. I tried doing it with sed, but there were no changes made to the file.

Here is what I did

sed -i -e "s/Superman/$var1/g" wrong.txt

So right now I have a variable

var1='batman'

I also have a file wrong.txt that reads as follows

John="Superman lives in Gotham City."
John="Superman's parents were killed in Crime Alley."
James="Superman does not have a bat-mobile."

Now I want to change the file's contents using sed. Obviously, I need to replace Superman with batman. I tried doing it with sed, but there were no changes made to the file.

Here is what I did

sed -i -e "s/John=\"Superman/John=\"$var1/g" wrong.txt
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gkmohit
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Use sed to replace a part of a line with a variable

So right now I have a variable

var1='batman'

I also have a file wrong.txt that reads as follows

Superman lives in Gotham City.
Superman's parents were killed in Crime Alley.
Superman has bat-mobile.

Now I want to change the file's contents using sed. Obviously, I need to replace Superman with batman. I tried doing it with sed, but there were no changes made to the file.

Here is what I did

sed -i -e "s/Superman/$var1/g" wrong.txt