Whenever I need to use sed with a path, I always use "|" instead of "/":
sed -e "s|^CONFIG_DIR=.*|CONFIG_DIR=/stick/your/path/here|" <
CONFIG >CONFIG.new
mv CONFIG.new CONFIG
At 10:48 11/07/2001 -0400, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Waht i mean is: i don't want to edit the CONFIG-file during the
> installation -
> > this must run itself.
>
>Use 'sed.'
>
>e.g.
>
>echo "s/^CONFIG_DIR=.*/CONFIG_DIR=\/path/" >pattern
>sed -f pattern CONFIG >CONFIG.new
>mv CONFIG.new CONFIG
>rm pattern
>
>(There's probably a way to escape everything for using sed's -e command,
>but I often miss something or other and prefer to use a temporary file.)
>
>--
>-Geoff Hutchison
>Williams Students Online
>http://wso.williams.edu/
>
>
>
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