sed command not working with newline/space define in variable.

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Issue

  • Refer below steps to reproduce issue 
[root@testing]# SRC="tr '\n' ' ' "
[root@testing]# DST="tr -d '\n' "
[root@testing]# 
[root@testing]# echo $SRC; echo $DST
tr '\n' ' '
tr -d '\n'
[root@testing]# 
[root@testing]# more newfile 
testuser LOGFILE=`egrep '^log_file' $UPT_CONF | tr -s ' ' | tr '\n' ' ' | cut -d'=' -f 2 2>/dev/null`
[root@testing]# sed -i  "s/$SRC/$DST/g" newfile 
[root@testing]# 
[root@testing]# more newfile 
testuser LOGFILE=`egrep '^log_file' $UPT_CONF | tr -s ' ' | tr '\n' ' ' | cut -d'=' -f 2 2>/dev/null`        <============ No change on "tr '\n' ' ' "
[root@testing]#

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux All

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