[SOLVED] How to modify a config parameter value with slash

Issue

I am trying to modify a config file demo.cfg from a .sh file. I can modify it using sed, but the problem is when the value contains slash character.

For that I am using this code:

read -r -p "(Default PATH: /my/default/path/): " response
    case $response in
        (*[![:blank:]]*) sed -i '/key_one/s/= ''.*/= '$response'/' demo.cfg; echo 'OK';;
        (*) echo 'Using default path'
    esac

Here the error when the variable $response has slash:

sed: -e expression #1, char 20: unknown option to "s"

Could I scape this variable to use with sed function?

Here demo.cfg file

[params]
key_one = 1
key_two = 9

Solution

Try passing response like this

${response//\//\\/}

This replaces all / with \/. Example:

$ response=/my/path/to/target
$ echo ${response//\//\\/}
\/my\/path\/to\/target

There is also an issue with your case statement. Your bash script should look like this:

#!/bin/bash

read -r -p "(Default PATH: /my/default/path/): " response
    case $response in
        *[![:blank:]]*) sed -i "/key_one/s/= .*/= ${response//\//\\/}/" demo.cfg
                echo 'OK'
                ;;
        *) echo 'Using default path'
                ;;
        esac

Answered By - user4918296

Answer Checked By - Katrina (WPSolving Volunteer)