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Apr 18, 2022 at 13:43 comment added Paul Maxfield @Kusalananda thank you for your help
Apr 18, 2022 at 11:02 comment added Kusalananda @PaulMaxfield In my view, yes. As soon as you deal with files in any structured format, such as YAML, JSON, XML, TOML, etc., line-oriented tools like sed can probably do some of the naive editings, but they don't know anything about the restrictions, requirements, and structure that these formats have. Also, injecting shell variables into GNU sed specifically is dangerous, unless you have full control over the contents of those variables.
Apr 18, 2022 at 10:58 comment added Paul Maxfield so yq would be the correct tool to use in this circumstance and editing yaml files?
Apr 18, 2022 at 10:50 vote accept Paul Maxfield
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Apr 18, 2022 at 10:48 comment added Paul Maxfield sorry I should have passed in 7.17.4 as a variable
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Apr 18, 2022 at 10:34 comment added Stéphane Chazelas [[:blank:]] usually matches a lot more blank characters than just space or tab, though in a yaml file, you're unlikely to find any other ones than space and tab.
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