Re: perl or sed s/// problem

On 08/05/2010 10:44 AM, David wrote:
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> I'm having a problem with perl *and* sed with a particular replace line. The lines I'm trying to search for, and replace, both have "/" characters, which is completely killing me.
>

> line="password    requisite     /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3"
> newline="password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so minlen=8 dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 lcredit=0 minclass=3  retry=3"

>
> I need to maintain whitespace, too.
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> perl -p -i -e s/"$line"/"$newline"/ file
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> That tosses out all kinds of errors, since perl believes the first "/lib" line to be the next delimiter. Even using the magical \Q and \E things doesn't work. AARRGGHH!!!
>
> Sed seems to have the same problem. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to work? And yes, unfortunately, I need to use the variables.

Try something like

$ sed -e "s|$line|$newline|" file

You probably also want to define your variables like line='password ...'
so that the shell preserves the literal value of $.

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