Andy B wrote:
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> On 2006-08-21, Andy B wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Wonder if you can , this problem is getting me down.
>>>
>>> My script is falling over with a sed problem.
>>>
>>> NEWSTORE=JvHCdEMzDegPI
>>> NPASS=EoWH/Q4hds7nA
>>>
>>> sed -e '/bill/s/'"${NEWSTORE}"'/'"${NPASS}"'/g' /tmp/temp
>>>
>>> The above sed command works fine when there are no "special characters"
>>> but when they appear as above i get a sed: command garbled: error.
>>> Tried a few things with no luck, to escape theses.
>> That's bacause $NPASS contains a slash. Use a different delimiter
>> with sed:
>>
>> sed -e "/bill/s|${NEWSTORE}|${NPASS}|g" /tmp/temp
>>
>> --
>> Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
>> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
>> ===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
>> ===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I would love to do this only problem is that the 2 variables
>
> $NEWSTORE and $NPASS, will be generated from a file that may have
> special characters in it ie !"?$%^&* etc, so what i need sed to do is
> read the variable in and ignore any special character that are in that
> variable.
>
> Is there a way round this at all?
>

The sed's I've used also accept control characters, eg. ctrl-G,
as substitute delimiters. Is there a possibility that your variables
will contain control characters too? If not, try a control char,
control X or control G or some such.

sed "/bill/s^X$NEWSTORE^X$NPASS^Xg"