Quote:
Originally Posted by timgolding
i made a script to update a lot of xml files. to save me some time. Ran it and it replaced all the the files with a 0kb file. The problem i was having is that I am using sed to change xml node <doc_root>. The problem with this is it has a / in the closing xml tag and the stuff inside will also have a bunch of / because it is a file path. so i am using sed and was hoping this would work:
Code:
sed 's/<doc_root><\/doc_root>/<doc_root>\/'$i'\/web<\/doc_root>/g' $my_file > $my_file
Is my problem in the regex or is it because I am using $my_file > $my_file ? do i need to copy it to a temp file first the mv it to old file?
Or if its the regex can someone help with that
Here is the search string
Code:
<doc_root></doc_root>
Here is a typical replace string
Code:
<doc_root>/domain.co.uk/web</doc_root>
where the daomin.co.uk will be an argument from a for loop i.e $i
Please help before my boss gets angry with me 
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I will look into the function of the
sed but you are redirecting the output to the same file name, you shud never do that. that is why u have 0kb file.
redirect it to a temp file
verify the result
mv tempfile filename
cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam
