Problem in sed.

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All!
I am trying to use shell variables in a sed statement, but facing an error.I used the double quotes instead if single quotes in the sed statement.

[root@catinfo conf]# sed -i -e "s/password/$decoded/g;" $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml
sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unterminated `s' command
[root@catinfo conf]#

Any ideas where I would be going wrong.

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?

echo $decoded
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decoded variable has the following value "0716373777f62746"

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Try

sed -i -e 's/password/'${decoded}'/g;' ...
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Your command works with double quotes..!

I tried your command and it gave the following error:

[root@catinfo conf]# sed -i -e 's/password/'${decoded}'/g;'server.xml
sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unterminated `s' command

But this command works excellent.

sed -i -e "s/password/'${decoded}'/g;" server.xml

Thanks a lot Zaxxon for the command!!

sed is strange...:slight_smile:

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But this command now is not working...

sed -i -e "s/'${encoded}/'${decoded}'/g;" server.xml
 
sed -i -e "s/'${decoded}'/'${encoded}'/g;" server.xml