Download and insert salt string inside wordpress wp-config.php with Bash

Question

How can I insert the content of the variable $SALT in a specific point (line or string) of a file like wp-contet.php from wordpress using Bash script?

Answer 1

This is the bash script that I came up with that works on my Ubuntu server. I modified the examples from above.

Its a bit of brute force in that it will only replace the 8 keys that currently are required and expects the server to return exactly the same length key every time. The script works well for my use case so I thought I would share it.

CONFIG_FILE=wp-config.php
SALT=$(curl -L https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/)
SRC="define('AUTH_KEY'"; DST=$(echo $SALT|cat|grep -o define\(\'AUTH_KEY\'.\\{70\\}); sed -i "/$SRC/c$DST" $CONFIG_FILE
SRC="define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY'"; DST=$(echo $SALT|cat|grep -o define\(\'SECURE_AUTH_KEY\'.\\{70\\}); sed -i "/$SRC/c$DST" $CONFIG_FILE
SRC="define('LOGGED_IN_KEY'"; DST=$(echo $SALT|cat|grep -o define\(\'LOGGED_IN_KEY\'.\\{70\\}); sed -i "/$SRC/c$DST" $CONFIG_FILE
SRC="define('NONCE_KEY'"; DST=$(echo $SALT|cat|grep -o define\(\'NONCE_KEY\'.\\{70\\}); sed -i "/$SRC/c$DST" $CONFIG_FILE
SRC="define('AUTH_SALT'"; DST=$(echo $SALT|cat|grep -o define\(\'AUTH_SALT\'.\\{70\\}); sed -i "/$SRC/c$DST" $CONFIG_FILE
SRC="define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT'"; DST=$(echo $SALT|cat|grep -o define\(\'SECURE_AUTH_SALT\'.\\{70\\}); sed -i "/$SRC/c$DST" $CONFIG_FILE
SRC="define('LOGGED_IN_SALT'"; DST=$(echo $SALT|cat|grep -o define\(\'LOGGED_IN_SALT\'.\\{70\\}); sed -i "/$SRC/c$DST" $CONFIG_FILE
SRC="define('NONCE_SALT'"; DST=$(echo $SALT|cat|grep -o define\(\'NONCE_SALT\'.\\{70\\}); sed -i "/$SRC/c$DST" $CONFIG_FILE