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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Replacing columns-separated fields having special characters Post 303045841 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 15th of April 2020 06:08:48 AM
Old 04-15-2020
You are right - sed only takes RegularExpressions so is not ideal if you want to match plain strings that can contain RE-specific characters.
A better tool for this is awk. Here is a principle solution:
Code:
echo 'bla:fromstring:blabla:fromstring' | awk 'BEGIN { RS=":" } $1==from { $1=to } 1' from='fromstring' to='tostring' | paste -sd ":"
bla:tostring:blabla:tostring

The RS (RecordSeparator) is changed from newline to ":".
Because awk has a problem with the last record when ORS (OutputRecordSeparator) is changed to ":" I pipe the newline-separated output to paste that does the output formatting.
 

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