I have encountered a most annoying problem that occurs on the PWD variable when the current path includes a space. My code looks somewhat like this:
mycommand |sed -E '
s|mystuff|replacement| ;
s|'$(pwd)'|replacement| ;
'
This works great, unless the current path contains a space character. If it does, $(pwd)
is expanded to
'mypath/with space'
instead of just
mypath/with space
This cause the sed expression to be messed up (because of the extra quotes):
sed: 1: "s|mypath/with": unterminated substitute pattern
I have noticed that it doesn't help to expand pwd like this: ${PWD//\'/}
.
How can this be solved?
Replace single quotes by double quotes and replace quotes with backquotes around pwd:
mycommand | sed -E "
s|mystuff|replacement| ;
s|`pwd`|replacement| ;
"
Double quotes allow expansion of variables and backquoted commands.
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