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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using sed to replace a string in file with a string in a variable that contains spaces Post 302374324 by vivelafete on Tuesday 24th of November 2009 07:12:25 AM
Old 11-24-2009
Using sed to replace a string in file with a string in a variable that contains spaces
Hi,

i call my shell like:
Code:
my_shell "my project name"

my script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash -vx

projectname=$1

sed s/'PROJECT_NAME  ='/'PROJECT_NAME  = '$projectname/ <test_config_doxy >temp
cp temp test_config_doxy

the following error occurres:

Code:
sed s/'PROJECT_NAME           ='/'PROJECT_NAME           = '$projectname/ <test_config_doxy >temp
+ sed 's/PROJECT_NAME           =/PROJECT_NAME           = my' project name/
sed: -e expression #1, char 54: unterminated `s' command

do i have to take the string apart by searching the spaces and do then something like:

Code:
sed s/'PROJECT_NAME           ='/'PROJECT_NAME           = '$string1' '$string2' '$string3/ <test_config_doxy >temp

or is there a clever alternative

Thanks!

---------- Post updated at 07:12 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:05 AM ----------

sed s/'PROJECT_NAME ='/'PROJECT_NAME = '"$projectname"/ <test_config_doxy >temp

"$projectname" //just use quotation marks around the variable
 

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LEARN ABOUT V7

projects

projects(1)							   User Commands						       projects(1)

NAME

       projects - print project membership of user

SYNOPSIS

       projects [-dv] [ user]

       projects -l [projectname  [projectname...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  projects  command prints on standard output the projects to which the invoking user or an optionally specified user belongs. Each user
       belongs to some set of projects specified in the project(4) file and possibly in the associated NIS maps and  LDAP  databases  for  project
       information.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d	Prints only default project.

       -l	Prints verbose info on each project projectname. If no projectnames are given, info on all projects is printed.

       -v	Prints project descriptions along with project names.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       projectnaDisplay information for the specified project.

       user	Displays project memberships for the specified user.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Displaying Membership for a Specified User

       example$ projects paul
       default beatles wings
       example$ projects ringo
       default beatles
       example$ projects -d paul
       beatles

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       1	A fatal error occurred during execution.

       2	Invalid command line options were specified.

FILES

       /etc/project    Local database containing valid project definitions for this machine.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Stability		     |See below.		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       The invocation is Evolving. The human-readable output is Unstable.

SEE ALSO

       getdefaultproj(3PROJECT), getprojent(3PROJECT), project(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    13 May 2004 						       projects(1)
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