I'm working on a script to make setting up a Statamic site more efficient. The problem I'm running into is that the variable I'm using to replace a string in a file has unescaped forward slashes and is user input. How can I make sure that _site_url: http://statamic.com
will become _site_url: http://example.com
?
The code below will work as long as there are no forward slashes present.
echo "What's your site URL? Don't forget the protocol (ex. http://)!"
read -e SITE_URL
echo "%s/_site_url: http:\/\/statamic.com/_site_url: $SITE_URL/g
w
q
" | ex _config/settings.yaml
The problem is the delimiter in your ex
command. We can put anything we'd like instead, I use @
here :
Try doing this :
sed -i "s@_site_url: http://statamic.com/_site_url: $SITE_URL@g" _config/settings.yaml
Or with your ex
command :
echo "What's your site URL? Don't forget the protocol (ex. http://)!"
read -e SITE_URL
echo "%s@_site_url: http://statamic.com@_site_url: $SITE_URL@g
w
q
" | ex _config/settings.yaml
Since you specifically mentioned bash instead of Bourne shell or generic Unix shell, I'd recommend using Bash's built in search/replace feature:
echo "What's your site URL? Don't forget the protocol (ex. http://)!"
read -e SITE_URL
echo Escaped URL: ${SITE_URL//\//\\\/}