I've spent hours trying to figure this out. I am using shell_exec (yes, I know the security problems associated with this) and sed to change text in a file.
The problem is no matter what I try I can't seem to output the text with the quotes still intact. I've tried almost every combination of single and double quotes I could to escape it, but it hasn't worked. After hours of trying, I decided to ask the question here.
The code is in a PHP file:
shell_exec('sed -i "s/patterntoreplace/yolo(word,"Hello Everyone", word)/" test.txt
The problem is that the file ends up with:
yolo(word,Hello Everyone, word)
The quotes keep getting parsed and I absolutely need them. I tried various things such as putting it into a variable, using escapeshellarg and escapeshellcmd and trying various combinations of single and double quotes, but I still can't get it to work.
This is very frustrating for me because this is the last part of my project and it should be simple, yet I can't run my program without the quotes. It's rather infuriating.
Can someone please tell me what to replace in that command to get quotes to output correctly?
