sed "s/\//\\\//g"

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

The variable F is:
#com.hp.java.file.start=/etc/hp/dir1/dir2/dir3/myconfig.xml
VAL1=`echo $F | cut -d"=" -f1`
#com.hp.java.file.start
OLD=`echo $F | sed "s/\//\\\//g"`
#hoping to get com.hp.java.file.start=\/etc\/hp\/dir1\/dir2\/dir3\/myconfig.xml
VAL2=`echo $F | cut -d"=" -f2`
#/etc/hp/dir1/dir2/dir3/myconfig.xml
VALZ=`echo $VAL2 | sed "s/\/etc\/hp\///g"`
#dir1/dir2/dir3/myconfig.xml
VALZ2="$VAL2"
#/etc/hp/dir1/dir2/dir3/myconfig.xml
VALZ3=`echo $VALZ2 | sed "s/\//\\\//g"`
#\/etc\/hp\/dir1\/dir2\/dir3\/myconfig.xml<\/A>

NEW="${OLD}=${VALZ3}"

#Up to there it seems to do what I expect, but the following sed gets confused with all the /'s and \'s!
#How can I quote the sed properly still allowing variable substitution?
#I've tried all the ' " ` 's!
sed "s/`$OLD`/`$NEW`/g" ${PROPFILE} > ${PROPFILE}.tmp
mv ${PROPFILE}.tmp $PROPFILE

Later,
Bill

(PS, regarding my question yeste...

[Thierry Poels_1 · Accepted solution]

hi Bill,

change the delimiter, too many /'s ;)

sed "s;$OLD;$NEW;g" ${PROPFILE} > ${PROPFILE}.tmp

good luck,
Thierry.

BTW I would also change the to to get rid of excesive backslashes.

[Mark van Hassel]

Hi,

It should be like this:

sed s'/'$OLD'/'$NEW'/g' ${PROPFILE} >$PORPFILE}.tmp

[Praveen Bezawada]

Hi
On posix
sed s/${OLD}/${NEW}/g
seems to be working fine for me..

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Yeah, guys, thanks for you help, especially Thierry, you helped make the script more readable. In fact I was really screwing up.. I was looking at the wrong output file!! I'm going to post this script up here soon in any case, see what you all think of it.. after all you helped write my element of it..
It's a type of collectinfo based on the nickel script by Robert Sakic of the German Response Center only that I've modified it to add some more stuff. I'll email him my copy and see if he want's to keep my bits in any case.

See www.grc.hp.com/docs/nickel/
for the original script.

Later,
Bill