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Old 07-25-2008
Problem with awk while handling special charaters

Hi,

I have an application.xml file like
</dependency>
<artifactId>_AdminServicesEAR</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-20080521.085352-1</version>
<context-root>oldvalue</context-root>
<type>ear</type>
<DOCTYPE "abc/xyz/eft">
<NewTag>value123</xyz>
<NewTag>value321</abcd>

</dependency>


i need to search & replace the value inside <NewTag> based on the input parameter which iam passing to the script.

eg : ./sampleawk 1 will replace the first occurance of <NewTag>
The command which i am using is

awk -v n=$OCCURENCE -v s="<$KEY>$VALUE<\/" "/<$KEY>(.+)<\//&&n==++c{sub(\"<$KEY>(.+)<\/\",s)}1"


But this command is not working properly if the "$VALUE" contains some
special characters like & , % etc...

CAn anyone help me to change the exisiting command for handling special charcters ???

Thanks in advance
 

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COLORS(3)						   libbash colors Library Manual						 COLORS(3)

NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors. SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color> colorReset colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text> colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text> DESCRIPTION
General colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty. The function list: colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline) colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added Detailed interface description follows. Available colors: Green Red Yellow White The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red). FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color> Sets the current printing color to color. colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal. colorPrint [<indent>] <color> Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline). Parameters: <indent> The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position. <color> The color to use. <color> The text to print. colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added. EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline: Using colorSet: $ colorSet green $ echo 'Hello World' $ colorReset Using colorPrint: $ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo Using colorPrintN: $ colorPrintN 'Hello World' AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com> Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net> SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(1) Linux Epoch Linux
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