Using sed in PKGBUILD

kleptophobiac · 2004-12-01 01:28:49

I would like to replace a line in a file using sed when a program makepkg -c is run

Here's the line I have now:

sed -i "s//usr/local/$startdir/pkg/usr/" $startdir/file

The idea is to replace /usr/local in the file with $startdir/pkg/usr, but with $startdir expanded. I initially thought the double quotes around the sed command would work, but apparently not. The file ends up having "$startdir" actually in the line rather than what the script thinks it expands to. It is very annoying.

Does anybody know how to make this work?

sarah31 · 2004-12-01 02:11:52

why not take a look at the several PKGBUILDs that use sed commands to see if you can figure it out? sorry it has been a LONG time since i worked on packages so I cannot point you directly to one.

kleptophobiac · 2004-12-01 02:13:18

I have no idea which packages use sed, though I'm sure they're there.

http://arch.subpop.net/sources/cedega/PKGBUILD

I found that one!

kleptophobiac · 2004-12-01 02:20:41

aha! I refined my google search and came up with something useful.

sed -i "s%/usr/local%$startdir/pkg/usr%g" $startdir/file

IT WORKED!!
w00t

sarah31 · 2004-12-01 16:12:23

you could have grepped the abs directory for PKGBUILDs that used sed btw.

glad you found your answer though

kleptophobiac · 2004-12-01 20:50:57

sarah31 wrote:

you could have grepped the abs directory for PKGBUILDs that used sed btw.
glad you found your answer though

But I so rarely ever use grep or cat that I'm completely useless with them.

cactus · 2004-12-01 21:55:24

grep -R "sed" /var/abs

Sit back and watch the scrolling joy!
In fact, you might want to redirect output to a file, or pipe it to less...

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#1 2004-12-01 01:28:49

Using sed in PKGBUILD

#2 2004-12-01 02:11:52

Re: Using sed in PKGBUILD

#3 2004-12-01 02:13:18

Re: Using sed in PKGBUILD

#4 2004-12-01 02:20:41

Re: Using sed in PKGBUILD

#5 2004-12-01 16:12:23

Re: Using sed in PKGBUILD

#6 2004-12-01 20:50:57

Re: Using sed in PKGBUILD

#7 2004-12-01 21:55:24

Re: Using sed in PKGBUILD

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