Shell Programming and Scripting

This has been covered many times earlier but couldnt figure the issue myself. Can you please advise whats wrong on the below code

I have a variable with special character ($) and am using that variable to replace another variable in file but however sed is failing to parse it correctly


Code:

Code:

PASSWORD1=Mypm@123
PASSWORD_NEW=$(echo $PASSWORD1 | sed -e 's/\(\.\|\/\|\*\|\[\|\]\|\\\)/\\&/g')
sed  -i "s/PASSWORD_TEXT/"$PASSWORD_NEW"/g"  credentials.txt

You need to provide actual data for us to analyze. Your input and desired output will be helpful.
BTW the last sed statement doesn't need " around PASSWORD_NEW

--ahamed

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

Your password was "Mypm&123", you need to escape the "&" with

Code:

password="Mypm\&123"

That i cant enforce while getting the input. Script should be intelligent enough to put in escape characters and thats what I am looking for.

Well, what's your shell?

No sure what OS, shell, or version of sed you're using, but this may help point you in the right direction. You can insert another line to have sed search for any non-alphanumeric characters, in this case a "&" and escape it, the proceed with the replacement in the file:

Code:

echo $DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD
Mypm&123

DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(echo $DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD | sed 's#\([]\#\%\@\*\$\/&[]\)#\\\1#g')

echo $DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD
Mypm\&123

sed -i "s/DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD/$DEPLOYMGR_ADMIN_PASSWORD/g" credentials.txt

installationHome=INSTALLATION_HOME
password=Mypm&123

Hope this helps.