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Old 04-08-2008
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replace string in XML with sed
Greetings,
I have an XML : file.xml

Code:
<component>
       <name>abcd</name>
       <value>1234</value>
</component>

I am using sed to replace abcd with the desired value dynamically without knowing the actual value.

Code:
sed 's/<name>[-[:alnum:]./]\{1,\}<\/name>/<name>ijkl<\/name>/' file.xml > newfile.xml

I don't have any issues with this command in Linux but on Solaris machine, I am getting the error:
Quote:
sed: command garbled: /<name>[-[:alnum:]./]\{1,\}<\/name>/<name>ijkl<\/name>/
If I remove >[-[:alnum:]./]\{1,\} and put the actual value, it is fine. But I have do it dynamically as I use it within the script to replace the existing value with the given value.

Can somebody please advise.

Thanks,
Chiru
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-08-2008 at 02:45 PM.. Reason: added code tags