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# 1  
Old 03-14-2018
sed find 2 strings and replace one
Hi Everyone,

I want to find this 2 strings in a single line a file and replace the second string.

this is the line i need to find
Code:
<param name="user" value="CORE_BI"/>

find user and CORE_BI and replace only CORE_BI with admin

so finally the line should look like this.
Code:
<param name="user" value="admin"/>

I tried this but its not working.
Code:
grep -E 'user.*CORE_BI' repository.xml | xargs sed -i "s/value=[^)]*_BI/value=\"admin\"/" repository.xml

Please tell me a solution.

Thanks In Advance.
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 03-14-2018 at 04:32 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 03-14-2018
Please wrap your code in code tags!

If you have only one file, have an if clause
Code:
if grep -E 'user.*CORE_BI' repository.xml
then
  sed -i "s/value=[^)]*_BI/value=\"admin\"/" repository.xml
fi

This takes the exit code from grep.
You can suppress the grep output.
# 3  
Old 03-14-2018
Hi MadeInGermany,

Sir, this code make changes in another line also

Like this 2 line get changed

Code:
<param name="user" value="CORE_BI"/>
    <param name="password" value="CORE_BI"/>

in both the above line, it changes CORE_BI to admin

I want only in line where user is there.

only this line
Code:
<param name="user" value="CORE_BI"/>

Last edited by RudiC; 03-14-2018 at 05:42 AM..
# 4  
Old 03-14-2018
Why the grep at all? Try
Code:
sed  '/<param name="user"/ s/CORE_BI/admin/' file

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# 5  
Old 03-14-2018
Thank You RudiC Sir,

Your code works. Great.

I will try to master SED and AWK commands.
# 6  
Old 03-14-2018
The following variant requires the _BI to follow the value= (allowing a " in between) that in turn must be located right of the 1st string.
Code:
sed -i 's/\(<param name="user".*value="\{0,1\}\)[^"]*_BI/\1admin/' file

The \1 puts back what matched in the \( \).
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