SUMMARY: sed variable substitution problem

I got many responses in 5 minutes so far.t Many thanks
to Don Miles. His solutions worked.
Original Question:  
> > Hi managers,
> > I am writing a menu driver script to change
> monitoring
> > limit for file systems.But when the variable is
> > substituted it is treated as part of sed command.
> > e.g.
> > I want to delete line "/ 60 "from reference file.
> > where fs=/ and fslimit=60
> > I can't use sed -e "/\$fs/d" $file Or "/$fs/d"
> $file.
> > 
> > Thanks and I will summerise.
> > 
> > Utkarsh..

> I had this problem once but don't remember exactly
> how I solved it.
> I solved it by escaping the special characters and
> you may need more
> than one backslash to do it.  Try something like:
> 
>   sed -e "/\\$fs/d"
> 
> 
> Don Mies
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