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Substituting text in a sed like manner but with a richer format
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I have the following problems working with sed:
- It doesn't allow multiline operations (thus, no indentations, no nesting)
- It is generally obligatory to wrap entire commands in quote marks (
sed "SED_COMMAND" FILE) even if the command itself contains quote marks.
Without these problems I could format a long liner such as sed -i "s/\$to = ".*";$/\$to = [email protected];/g" PATH as in this pseudocode:
sed -i
A
\$to = ".*";$
B
\$to = [email protected];
G
PATH
- A means "from"
- B means "to"
- G means "global"
Since sed doesn't work this way, how could I achieve a similar syntax in the shell? Perhaps by using Python? Perl? Something else?
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