Again I am attempting to alter configuration file via script.
I looked into jq but jq seems to support the .json format alone.
.vdf is almost exactly like .json except that there are no commas.
here is an attempt at what I want to do but with sed.
#!/bin/bash
text_to_find=' "9420"
{
"LastPlayed" ".*"
}'
text_to_put=' "9420"
{
"LastPlayed" "1554153269"
"ViewedLaunchEULA" "1"
"ViewedSteamPlay" "1"
"BadgeData" "02000000080b"
"LaunchOptions" "PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1, PROTON_DUMP_DEBUG_COMMANDS=1 %command%"
}'
sed -i "s|$text_to_find|$text_to_put|1" myTestFile
that returns: "sed: -e expression #1, char 13: unterminated `s' command"
and it probably would fail to match Last played because I don't think in this context ".*" would still be interpreted.
here's an example of the test file :