Help needed in shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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i am trying to read an existing xml file and find an element in the xml file of following format
<home.dir value="/local/mnt/homes/docs"/>
I am trying to take a command line argument to my shell script whose value should replace /local/mnt/homes/docs in xml document.
Can you please point me how to acheive this. Appreciate your input

2

Please post the existing code you have written to solve this problem (wrapped in CODE tags) and annotate what you are doing with that code.

Thanks.

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Hi Neo
I have not completed my code...heres what i am trying to do


#!/bin/bash
sed -i 's/local/mnt/homes/docs/$1/g' /home/viswas/test.xml
4

Try:

sed -i "s|/local/mnt/homes/docs|$1|g" /home/viswas/test.xml