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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed failing for variable with special characters Post 302575119 by sasiharitha on Sunday 20th of November 2011 03:29:10 PM
Old 11-20-2011
Here is the actual code and data
As mentioned below, the variable value isn't getting parsed correctly and instead of $ its taking the variable name while doing sed. Can you please help on what might be wrong?

credentials.template
installationHome=INSTALLATION_HOME
password=DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD

Input Values received in script:
DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD=Mypm@123
INSTALLATION_HOME=/opt/software

Script
sed -e "s:INSTALLATION_HOME:$INSTALLATION_HOME:g" credentials.template credentials.txt
sed -i "s/DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD/$DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD/g" credentials.txt


Expected ouput in credentials.txt :
installationHome=/opt/software
password=Mypm@123


Actual output ( which is wrong):
installationHome=/opt/software
password=MypmDEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD123
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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