Issue

How to (inside a bash script) replace a string like <toto>*<titi> with <toto>fixed string<titi> using sed, provided that * is a wildcard?

Solution

I suspect that this would do it:

sed -E 's/<toto>[^<]*<titi>/<toto>fixed string<titi>/g'

...but I'd try to make sure that the opening tag <titi> is always the first one following <toto>. My sed line will not replace something in

<toto>something<foo>another value<titi> ...

since it breaks at the first peek at < (the [^<]* - which means: any amount of anything but <) and requires that it's followed by <titi>

Answered By - Ted Lyngmo

Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)