SED with quotes

[GlassFish]

Hello,
I would like to replace a file option. This option is as follows:

OPTION = "TRUE"

With SED I would take the option to FALSE so I starting like this:

sed-i-e 's / OPTION = "TRUE" / OPTION = "FALSE" / g' / etc / file

This does not work. How can I make this work with the sed command? Help needed guys! Thank you in advance.

[Katty]

Hi

sed-i-e 's / OPTION = "TRUE" / OPTION = "FALSE" / g' / etc / file

Instead of this ou can use character escaping "\"

sed 's / OPTION = \ "true \" / OPTION = \ "false \" / g'

Try this and see if it works, other wise we have lots of options to do that.

[GlassFish]

Hi,

sed 's / OPTION = \ "true \" / OPTION = \ "false \" / g'

I tried the above command in the terminal with sed, but sorry, it does not work anyway I tried, I get an error message like

sed:-e expression nA 1, characterized " re 45: unknown option to `s'

Any more commands or options of sed you know? Or is there any other way to achieve the same.

[Katty]

Hi
Well we may not be quite using the same version of sed, But for information I just create a file with contents test.txt

OPTION = "TRUE"

and control this way

sed-i-e 's / OPTION = \ "true \" / OPTION = \ "false \" / g' test.txt

Follow the same procedure and you will get the results.

[GlassFish]

Hello
On a simple option that works:

OPTION = "TRUE"

But by cons on an option "view" this does not:

OPTION = "-u user-p password"

If I change the option as

OPTION = "-u test-p tty"

I use sed in a debian lenny, not sure about the version of sed, but I have not updated the version, it is the default version which comes with debian lenny.

[Zecho]

Hello,
Sed uses the delimiter called slash. For sed that does not confuse them with slashes of chemisn delimiter, it must be protected in the same manner as other special characters.

sed-i-e 's / = OPTION \ "-u test-p password-h \ / var \ / lib \ / test \" / OPTION = \

Hope you get the point, these are the basic of sed and off-course linux.