[veryangryman]

Hi folks - hope you can help. I have this to replace any IP address with the word ThisIsATest in the file SiteBasic.xml


sed 's/[0-9]\{1,3\}.[0-9]\{1,3\}.[0-9]\{1,3\}.[0-9]\{1,3\}/ThisIsATest/g' SiteBasic.xml

Works a charm

Problem is, i want it only to replace lines with this string

ossCorbaNameServer="1.2.3.4"/>

or in other words

ossCorbaNameServer="<ip address>"/>

All help much appreciated.

[daymobrew]

Put that text into the regex and then put brackets around the pieces you want to keep and reference them in the 2nd half of the regex

For example:
's/\(keep=\)[0-9]\(other\)/\1ThisIsaTest\2/'
Should return:
keep=ThisIsaTestother

My escaping of chars is probably off but hopefully you get the idea.

[daymobrew]

This might work:

sed 's/\(ossCorbaNameServer="\)[0-9]\{1,3\}.[0-9]\{1,3\}.[0-9]\{1,3\}.[0-9]\{1,3\}\("\/>\)/\1ThisIsATest\2/g' SiteBasic.xml