I have been building a little script that add/removes mksysb images from my nim server.

Part of what it needs to do is resolve if a file (server.mksysb.date) is known as a NIM resource (server_mksysb_date). To do this I wrote the following bit of KSH code:

However my sed command did something I can explain but not what I expected...the $NIMNAME is changed into "_________" (an underscore for every character in the $FILENAME.

Is there a way to change just the . to a _ and not every char?

Enclose your sed command in quotes. In your example the shell is evaluating '\.' to '.' before sed even knows about it!

(and I'm assuming that the single quotes instead of backticks was a typo)

Damian

Thanx! And yes that was a typo..switching between my sun keyboard and my windows machine with a "normal" keyboard still trips me up