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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting escaping backslashes to evaluate paths Post 302419950 by surfbus78 on Monday 10th of May 2010 07:37:34 AM
Old 05-10-2010
hi there,

the problem i have is that i can't always guarantee that the string in the original file is the same which is why i chose to replace the whole line if the line starts with CLASSPATH.
The replacement PATH might also be different according to what has been set in a properties file.

so the original file could have something like:
CLASSPATH=/opt/app/default.jar
or
CLASSPATH=/tmp/process.jar
and so on and so forth..

And the replacement string might be something like:
/opt/app/process.jar
or
/opt/app/temp.jar:/var/tmp.boogie.jar
or
/tmp/login.jar:/tmp/process.jar:/root.jar
etc.etc.etc.etc

so the first step i have taken is to assign the replacement string to a variable, then i want the variable to be evaluated into the "sed" command but at the same time replacing the "/"s with "\/"s so that sed won't barf.

---------- Post updated at 11:37 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:31 AM ----------

@itkamaraj

thats spot on, worked a treat using "#"s in the sed command rather than "/"s.

nice one, thankyou.

Steve
 

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