Question

This is driving me nuts. I’m using sed in coffeescript to replace a line in a config file that looks as follows:

'username' => 'username',

My code looks like this:

commands.push "sed -i '' '119 s/\(.\)username.,$/\1" + dbinfo.dbUser + "\1,/g' '" + tmpAppDir + "/drupal/sites/default/settings.php'"

This should totally work, except coffeescript is interpreting my backreferences as octal escape sequences (Not allowed under strict mode.

I wouldn’t have to use backreferences if I was able to escape single-quotes, but that doesn’t really seem possible in this context.

Any help?

Answer 1

Try wrapping your code in pure javascript with `

`commands.push("sed -i '' '119 s/\(.\)username.,$/\1" + dbinfo.dbUser + "\1,/g' '" + tmpAppDir + "/drupal/sites/default/settings.php'");`

It’s not an elegant solution, but it’s an easy fix for your code.