[techtalk] 'Nuff sed

[Nancy Corbett]

Okay...I don't get it.  I'm trying to format a date using sed.  When I do
the command from the command line, it works.  But when I try it within the
sed statement, I get a message saying:

sed: command garbled: s/NEWDAY/Wednesday,05/30/2001/g
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Any sed proficient folks out there who could lend a brain cell to this?

Here's the sed statement:

eval "sed s/NEWDATE/`date +%A,%m/%d/%Y`/g infile > outfile"

I've tried escaping the /s like this:

eval "sed s/NEWDATE/`date +%A,%m\/%d\/%Y`/g infile > outfile"

and get the same error.  Anyone out there understand what sed's said?  I
know what I said to sed when I saw this.  "Say what?"

TIA,
Nancy