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How to write complex sed query which got special char

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I am struggling to replace a string with a special character. I am using the command below and I tried to escape each special character, but I am still getting an error.

If I don't use special characters, the query is working fine, but I have to use special characters.

String to find: ../../../profileone
String to Replace: @mysettings/future-system-one

Query:

sed -i s/"../../../profileone"/"@mysettings/future-system-one"/g *.fileExtension'

I wanted to try this command from jenkins pipeline.

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answered 2 Years ago amacal · Accepted Answer

You don't actually have any special characters there, so you don't need to escape anything. The only issue is that you are using / as the pattern delimiter, so just use another character and it should work fine:

sed 's|../../../profileone|@mysettings/future-system-one|g' *.fileExtension

Note how the sed command is quoted, that is important.

Now, your question shows the target strings as ../../../profileone and @mysettings/future-system-one, but your command also includes double quotes. If those are supposed to be part of the strings, use this instead:

sed 's|"../../../profileone"|"@mysettings/future-system-one"|g' *.fileExtension