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i am struggling to raplace some text in a line between two (closest) patterns ,

Code:

line="/home/usr/bin/:/home/usr/devuser,n1.9/bin:/home/usr/root/bin"

i want to replace "devuser,n1.9" with "NEWVAL", basically all teh text from "devuser" until nearest '/' with some new text.

i tried teh following

Code:

echo $line | sed 's/devuser.*\//NEWVAL\//'

i am getting /home/usr/bin/:/home/usr/NEWVAL/bin"

where i am expecting
/home/usr/bin/:/home/usr/NEWVAL/bin:/home/usr/root/bin"

i know sed will match the longest possible pattern, i tried this as well

Code:

echo $line | sed 's/devuser.*[^\/]/NEWVAL/'

but still no luck

any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

---------- Post updated at 02:13 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:30 AM ----------

hey guys,
found something

Code:

echo $line | sed 's/devuser[^\/]*/NEWVAL/'

is giving me the expected output.

any other suggestions are welcome.

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