Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm using sed to alter a parameter file used in another process. Basically, the file is a template containing a few variables which need to be replaced at runtime.

The problem is that using sed with filenames that contain the / character causes matches to fail.

I've tried doing an escaped forward slash substitution. ie. replace all "/" with "\\\/". It works outside the shell, but not inside. Wierd.

Here's the code fragment:

Code:

# 2 Modify the runCSjob.xml file: output to jobFile
subRunDate=`echo ${runDate}|sed -e "s/\//\\\\\//g"`;
substituteRunDate="1,\$s/\\\${runDate}/${subRunDate}/g";
subOutputFile=`echo ${outputFile}|sed -e "s/\//\\\\\//g"`;
substituteOutputFile="1,\\\$s/\${outputFile}/${subOutputFile}/g"
substituteRunType="1,\$s/\${runType}/${runType}/g";
sed -e "${substituteRunDate}" -e "${substituteOutputFile}" -e "${substituteRunType}" ${UTOPIA_BIN}/runCSjob.xml > ${tmpFile}.xml

Ideas??

Also, anyone know a good regexp site - summary etc?

What shell are you using in the script as opposed to the command line? I am not exactly sure what you are trying to do, but when I tried your sed commands on the command line in Bourne Shell (sh) and in a Bourne Shell Script, I got the same results.

In sed, you don't *have* to use "/" to seperate your statement.

sed 's/this/that/g' is the same as sed 's#this#that#g'.

If you don't use "/"'s, it won't interpret the slashes in a path.