find a word between two words in unix shell scripting

Asked Oct 10 '19 at 16:13

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I have a file(sample.txt) with below content in the unix server.

--password xyzabcdef --username

I want to find the text xyzabcdef and replace it with xxxxxxxxx using sed. xyzabcdef is just a sample text, everytime the text and length of the text can change, and hence no hardcoding of the text.

Note: --password --username text is standard and wont change. I just want to find the text between these two and replace it.

expected result

--password xxxxxxxxx --username

edited Oct 10 '19 at 16:16

Barmar

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asked Oct 10 '19 at 16:13

Mohanram Krishnan

On SO we encourage users to post their efforts in their question, so kindly do so and let us know then – RavinderSingh13 Oct 10 '19 at 16:18
I think this answer suits better. Thanks though! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10613643/replace-a-unknown-string-between-two-known-strings-with-sed – Mohanram Krishnan Oct 10 '19 at 16:34

find a word between two words in unix shell scripting

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