New lines in EOF multiline text produce errors in sed command using Unix shell

Question

Here my run.sh file:

#!/bin/sh

before=$(cat <<EOF
require SYSPATH.'core/Bootstrap'.EXT;
EOF
)

after=$(cat <<EOF
if(strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 'phpunit'){
sometext # <= without it works fine!
EOF
)

sed -i.bak "s|$before|$after|g" "$2"

error

sed: -e expression #1, char 79: unterminated `s' command

Works fine but I want replace multiline text!

#!/bin/sh

before=$(cat <<EOF
require SYSPATH.'core/Bootstrap'.EXT;
EOF
)

after=$(cat <<EOF
if(strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 'phpunit'){
EOF
)

sed -i.bak "s|$before|$after|g" "$2"

You probably want cat << 'EOF' instead of cat << EOF if you don't want $_SERVERS to be expanded to the content of the $_SERVERS shell variable. — Stéphane Chazelas, Feb 09 '17 at 15:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 09 '17 at 16:02

0

This fixed it:

if(strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 'phpunit'){ \n \ # <= BACKSLASH needed!
sometext

edited Feb 09 '17 at 16:02

Michael Mrozek

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answered Feb 09 '17 at 15:17

Nychos

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New lines in EOF multiline text produce errors in sed command using Unix shell

error

Works fine but I want replace multiline text!

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