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Old 04-08-2008
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
 

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ISWALNUM(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       ISWALNUM(3)

NAME
iswalnum - test for alphanumeric wide character SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h> int iswalnum(wint_t wc); DESCRIPTION
The iswalnum() function is the wide-character equivalent of the isalnum(3) function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "alnum". The wide-character class "alnum" is a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", and therefore also a subclass of the wide-character class "print". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "print", the wide-character class "alnum" is disjoint from the wide-character class "cntrl". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", the wide-character class "alnum" is disjoint from the wide-character class "space" and its subclass "blank". The wide-character class "alnum" is disjoint from the wide-character class "punct". The wide-character class "alnum" is the union of the wide-character classes "alpha" and "digit". As such, it also contains the wide-char- acter class "xdigit". The wide-character class "alnum" always contains at least the letters 'A' to 'Z', 'a' to 'z' and the digits '0' to '9'. RETURN VALUE
The iswalnum() function returns nonzero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "alnum". Otherwise, it returns zero. ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). +-----------+---------------+----------------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +-----------+---------------+----------------+ |iswalnum() | Thread safety | MT-Safe locale | +-----------+---------------+----------------+ CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99. NOTES
The behavior of iswalnum() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. SEE ALSO
isalnum(3), iswctype(3) COLOPHON
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