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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting escaping backslashes to evaluate paths Post 302419947 by itkamaraj on Monday 10th of May 2010 07:28:03 AM
Old 05-10-2010
Try this...

Code:
kamaraj@kamaraj-laptop:~/Desktop/testing$ export abc="\"/opt/app/default.jar\""

kamaraj@kamaraj-laptop:~/Desktop/testing$ echo $abc
"/opt/app/default.jar"

kamaraj@kamaraj-laptop:~/Desktop/testing$ cat path_file 
CLASSPATH="/opt/app/example.jar"

kamaraj@kamaraj-laptop:~/Desktop/testing$ sed -ie "s#^CLASSPATH=.*#CLASSPAHT=$abc#g" path_file 

kamaraj@kamaraj-laptop:~/Desktop/testing$ cat path_file
CLASSPAHT="/opt/app/default.jar"

Last edited by itkamaraj; 05-10-2010 at 08:35 AM..
 

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