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Below command is used to replace the password in a script but the perl command is adding a white space when it does the subsstitution

password=arche20
perl -i -p -e "s/^(password[]*=[ ]*).*$/\1 $passwd/" config.properties

cat config.properties
userid=ARCHE
password= arche20

It does the work but it seems to be adding a space after password when it replaces. Could this be done without the space? Got a sed way:

sed -i "s/password.*/password=$passwd/g"
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  • I got a sed way to do it .. but want to correct the perl way as well sed -i "s/password.*/password=$passwd/g"
    – Peck
    May 18, 2015 at 18:33
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    You can use that exact same command in perl. Why are you adding the [ ]? All you need is perl -i -pe "s/^(password *= *).*/\1$passwd/". Are the empty character classes supposed to be doing something?
    – terdon ♦
    May 18, 2015 at 18:39

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You have a space after \1 in your replacement, just remove that and you should be good

perl -i -p -e "s/^(password[]*=[ ]*).*$/\1$passwd/" config.properties
                                          ^
                                          Removed space here
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