Hi,

I am trying to replace the encrypted password in my file using sed.
When I run below command locally, it works fine.
export VAR=XYZ
sed '
/password-encrypted/ c\
<password-encrypted>'$VAR'</password-encrypted>
' PASSWORD.xml > new.XML

But when I try to run same command using SSH, it gives parsing error.

ssh -q $HOST -l $LOGNAME -n "
sed '
/password-encrypted/ c\\
<password-encrypted>XYZ</password-encrypted>
' PASSWORD.xml > new.XML
"
sed: Function /password-encrypted/ c\ <password-encrypted>XYZ</password-encrypted> cannot be parsed.


Can someone please assist and let me know what correction is needed?

Regards,
UniAmi

Hello and welcome to LinuxQuestions,

It would be good to let us know what distro, version and shell you are using on both sides of the SSH connection.

Looking forward to your participation in the forums.

Kind regards,

Eric

SSH version is as below.

OpenSSH_5.3p1+sftpfilecontrol-v1.3-hpn13v5, OpenSSL 0.9.8n 24 Mar 2010
HP-UX Secure Shell-A.05.30.009, HP-UX Secure Shell version

For test run, I am doing ssh to the same account. SHELL variable is set to ksh.

Regards,
UniAmi

Hi,

I was referring to the operating system distro and version, not SSH, although that's good to know too. Are you using the same Linux distro, version and shell on both sides?

Kind regards,

Eric