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Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 7:53 pm**

sed -i 's/<Pager\/>/\n<TrayButton popup="$TEXTPOPUP" icon="$ICON" border="true">exec:$EXEC<\/TrayButton>\n<Pager\/>/g' /root/.jwmrc-tray

The code seems not to work with variables.
When I'm using it exactly like the above example, the content of variables is not put into the result. Instead the variables equal to the above code are put into /root/.jwmrc-tray.

When I'm using this modification

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sed -i 's/<Pager\/>/\n<TrayButton popup="'$TEXTPOPUP'" icon="'$ICON'" border="true">exec:'$EXEC'<\/TrayButton>\n<Pager\/>/g' /root/.jwmrc-tray

nothing changes inside /root/.jwmrc-tray.

What's wrong with that code or with what I'm doing?

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:24 pm**

Ok, I found the problem myself.

Variable $TEXTPOPUP contains spaces, so I had to double quote the variable!

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popup="'"$TEXTPOPUP"'"

Now it works well.

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