Re: sed question

[Michael <ml@hemathor.de>]

On Friday, December 6, 2019 6:06:10 PM CET, songbird wrote:

> result=`echo "summary: \"\"" | sed -e "s/^summary: .*$/summary: 
> \"${old_summary}\"/"`

of course this doesn't work. since you use '/' (slash) as delimiter in the 
sed expression, the slash in $old_summary is interpreted as the delimiter, 
and the rest (everything after the third slash doesn't make any sense to 
sed.

in this case, you have to escape all slashes in $old_summary to allow sed 
to do what you want.

try this:

result=`echo "summary: \"\"" | sed -e "s/^summary: .*$/summary: 
\"${old_summary//\//\\\/}\"/"`

greetings...