Summary: OT Sed question

From: Sriman Kumaran (sriman_kumaran@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 06:40:11 EST

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   Thanks for the value inputs, I ended up using it this way:
sed "s#`echo <variable_has_the string>`#new_value#g" old_file >new_file

Thanks

Sriman Kumaran <sriman_kumaran@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Dear Managers,

I am using sed to update password file. When work with encrypted passwords you will find special chars such as /. If I do it manually I can escape it with \, but in side script and using variables how could I escape it?. For example:
sed "s/old-password/new-password/g" old_file >new_file. If either old_password or new_password has special charactor (/) then it will fail I have to replace old_passowrd and new_password with real values (escapeing the /) and run the script.

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Sriman

    
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