On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:51:56 +0100, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question about working with sed. > I have an xml file containing > <theme>1</theme> > > I want to change this to > <theme>2</theme> > > I have problems with the "<" and ">" signs. Is there a was to mask them > in the sed command? > > sed s/"<theme>1</theme>"/"<theme>2</theme>"/g' test.xml > > does not work
You can either change the field separator from '/' to any other character, e.g. '@': [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat test.xml <theme>1</theme> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sed -e 's@<theme>1</them>@<theme>2</theme>@g' test.xml Or you can escape that field separator using '\': [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat test.xml <theme>1</theme> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sed -e 's/<theme>1<\/them>/<theme>2<\/theme>/g' test.xml <theme>1</theme> Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
