Hi,

Im trying to update some properties files with text from another file:
file1
user=xyz

file2
user=

after script

file2
user=xyz

Im using this reading the $QUARTZURL,ETC... from quartz.properties:
echo "1,\$s/org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.URL#.*/org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.URL=$QUARTZURL/g" > tmp;
echo "1,\$s/org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.user#.*/org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.user=$QUARTZUSER/g" >> tmp;
echo "1,\$s/org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.password#.*/org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.password=$QUARTZPASSWORD/g" >> tmp;
sed -f tmp quartz.properties >quartz.properties.new

I keep getting:

sed: file tmp line 3: unknown option to `s'
sed: file tmp line 1: unknown option to `s'
sed: file tmp line 1: unknown option to `s'
sed: file tmp line 1: unknown option to `s'

Help please!

I can't repro that here. Is the file longer than what you are really showing? Or do the variables contain slashes? I guess at least the URLs do! In that case you need to use a different separator, or escape the slashes. Of course, if the password can contain just about anything, you won't know in advance what separator character to use.

As a stylistic comment, you can use a here document instead of a temporary file.

Also, I took the liberty to escape the dots, just to be completely correct.