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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to extract string between two specified characters and end of line? Post 303044822 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 4th of March 2020 03:33:38 PM
Old 03-04-2020
Yes that is the correct format.
And it should be sed "s/$key/$value/g" with normal (double-)quotes, so the shell can expand $key and $value.

A more efficient way is to let the read command spllit into fields and directly assign them to distinct variables.
We can set the "input field separator" IFS to = (by default it is whitespace). By prefixing IFS="=" we set this environment variable only for the following read command.
Code:
input=/home/wip4599/test.txt
while IFS="=" read key value
do
  sed "s/$key/$value/g" $input
done < bbb.txt

 

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