Question

I’ve been banging into escaping single quote’s problem using SED (Bash shell).

I need to make

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';

into

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'mypassword';

What I’ve tried is:

sed -i "s/$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';/$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '$rootpassword';/g" /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/config.default.bak

Which ends up really jumbling the line.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password['Servers'][]['passsword'] = 'mypassword'

I’ve tried the ‘\” to escape single quotes and I think everything else under the sun but just can’t get it quite there.

can anyone point to my probable obvious mistake?

Thank you.

Answer 1

$ sed -i "s/\$cfg\['Servers'\]\[\$i\]\['password'\] = '';/\$cfg['Servers'][\$i]['password'] = '\$rootpassword';/g" file