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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Replace Pattern with another that has Special Characters Post 303033338 by ChicagoBlues on Wednesday 3rd of April 2019 02:36:19 PM
Old 04-03-2019
Replace Pattern with another that has Special Characters
Hello Team,

Any help would be much appreciated for the below scenario:

I have a sed command below where I am trying to replace the contents of 'old_pkey' variable with 'new_pkey' variable in a Soap request file (delete_request.txt). This works fine for regular string values, but this new_pkey has '/' that is breaking my sed command (sed: -e expression #1, char 122: unknown option to `s').

What I want to achieve is to replace the
Code:
'13670163|Customer|Home|Ask||MONTGOMERY|AL|36116'

with
Code:
'2141899|Customer|Home|N/A||N/A|NY|N/A' in the file delete_request.txt

Code:
old_pkey='13670163|Customer|Home|Ask||MONTGOMERY|AL|36116'
new_pkey='2141899|Customer|Home|N/A||N/A|NY|N/A'

sed "s/<urn:sourceKey>$old_pkey<\/urn:sourceKey>/<urn:sourceKey>$new_pkey<\/urn:sourceKey>/g" delete_request.txt

 

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