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svager
svager

Reputation: 779

Force sed to ignore white space

I am processing an XML file with sed. The content of the file to be replaced is bellow.

<NS1:myService>
    <NS1:code>1</NS1:code>
    <NS1:timestamp>Event_Time_Stamp</NS1:timestamp>
    <NS1:log>
        <NS1:logLevel>some_level</NS1:logLevel>
        <NS1:loggerName>log_back</NS1:loggerName>
        <NS1:message>loggable_message</NS1:message>
            <NS1:node>none</NS1:node>
            <NS1:host>my_host</NS1:host>
    </NS1:log>
</NS1:myServices>

I need to replace contents of the node with the my text. It works every time when variable which contains my text has NO space. As soon as there is space sed throws an error.

sed: -e expression #1, char 120: unterminated `s' command

Here is how I create my message in my script

 text="APPLICATION:\t\t$app\n"
 text=$text"RECEIVER:\t\t$receiver\n"
 text=$text"LOGGABLE MESSAGE:\t$message\n"
 text=$text"SENDER:\t\t$sender\n"
 text=$text"DATE CREATED:\t$created\n"

I use the following sed statement to do my replacements

sed -i 's|<NS1:message>.*<|<NS1:message>'$text'<|g' $workfile

However the above command breaks every time on space. How can I escape white space so sed would process it just like any other character?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3803

Answers (1)

svager
svager

Reputation: 779

As soon as I posted the question I figured it out. I needed yo use "

Command looks like this

sed -i 's|<NS1:message>.*<|<NS1:message>'"$text"'<|g' $workfile

Upvotes: 2

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