sed command in Jenkins script - bash

Question

I have a multiline sed command that works fine in a script that I run locally, but in a Jenkins build script gives me an error.
This is the command:
sed \
-i -r -e "s/(project\(.* VERSION\s+)[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\s*\)/\1$RELEASE_MAJOR\.$RELEASE_MINOR\.$RELEASE_MICRO \)/" \
-i -r -e "s/(set\(.* APPMANAGER_MAJOR_VERSION\s+)[0-9]{1,2}\s*\)/\1$RELEASE_MAJOR \)/" \
-i -r -e "s/(set\(.* APPMANAGER_MINOR_VERSION\s+)[0-9]{1,2}\s*\)/\1$RELEASE_MINOR \)/" \
-i -r -e "s/(set\(.* APPMANAGER_MICRO_VERSION\s+)[0-9]{1,2}\s*\)/\1$RELEASE_MICRO \)/" \
${CMAKE_FILE}
I keep getting this error message:
+ sed -i -r -e 's/(project\(.* VERSION\s+)[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,2}\s*\)/\114\.0\.0 \)/' -i -r -e 's/(set\(.* APPMANAGER_MAJOR_VERSION\s+)[0-9]{1,2}\s*\)/\114 \)/' -i -r -e 's/(set\(.* APPMANAGER_MINOR_VERSION\s+)[0-9]{1,2}\s*\)/\10 \)/' -i -r -e 's/(set\(.* APPMANAGER_MICRO_VERSION\s+)[0-9]{1,2}\s*\)/\10 \)/' /apps/artefacts/jenkins_workspace/AI/Release/RDK-AI-Branch_OFF/asappsserviced/asappsserviced/appinfrastructure/RDK/AppManager/CMakeLists.txt
Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]...
-n, --quiet, --silent
suppress automatic printing of pattern space
-e script, --expression=script
add the script to the commands to be executed
-f script-file, --file=script-file
add the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed
--follow-symlinks
follow symlinks when processing in place
-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]
edit files in place (makes backup if SUFFIX supplied)
-c, --copy
use copy instead of rename when shuffling files in -i mode
-b, --binary
does nothing; for compatibility with WIN32/CYGWIN/MSDOS/EMX (
open files in binary mode (CR+LFs are not treated specially))
-l N, --line-length=N
specify the desired line-wrap length for the `l' command
--posix
disable all GNU extensions.
-r, --regexp-extended
use extended regular expressions in the script.
-s, --separate
consider files as separate rather than as a single continuous
long stream.
-u, --unbuffered
load minimal amounts of data from the input files and flush
the output buffers more often
-z, --null-data
separate lines by NUL characters
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
If no -e, --expression, -f, or --file option is given, then the first
non-option argument is taken as the sed script to interpret. All
remaining arguments are names of input files; if no input files are
specified, then the standard input is read.
My local bash version is GNU bash, version 4.4.20(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) and sed is version 4.4.
On Jenkins the version of bash is GNU bash, version 4.2.46(2)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) and sed is version 4.2.2.
The variable CMAKE_FILE contains a path to a file containing text like this:
# Sets the minimum version of CMake required to build the native library.
cmake_minimum_required( VERSION 3.10.0 )
# Project setup
project( MyApp LANGUAGES C CXX VERSION 14.0.0 )
# Set the major and minor version numbers (also used by plugins)
set( APPMANAGER_MAJOR_VERSION 14 )
set( APPMANAGER_MINOR_VERSION 0 )
set( APPMANAGER_MICRO_VERSION 0 )
I am using sed to update the version numbers.
Any idea how to fix this?

Answer 1

I finally worked it out! Since I had an old version of sed that didn't support extended regexes, I had to do the following to use basic regular expressions (BRE):
escape groups, i.e. the open ( and close ) brackets
un-escape literal brackets
escape + for special meaning
escape the parentheses, i.e. { and }
I found this reference useful but it didn't mention anything about groups. Apparently in the BRE format, brackets for groups have to be escaped while literal brackets do not.
So this is what worked for me:
sed \
-i -e "s/\(project.*VERSION\)\s\+[0-9]\{1,2\}\.[0-9]\{1,2\}\.[0-9]\{1,2\}\s\+)/\1 $major\.$minor\.$micro\ )/" \
-e "s/\(set.*APPMANAGER_MAJOR_VERSION\)\s\+[0-9]\{1,2\}\s*)/\1 $major )/" \
-e "s/\(set.*APPMANAGER_MINOR_VERSION\)\s\+[0-9]\{1,2\}\s*)/\1 $minor )/" \
-e "s/\(set.*APPMANAGER_MICRO_VERSION\)\s\+[0-9]\{1,2\}\s*)/\1 $micro )/" ${FILE}