Replace first occurrence in package.json file

Having hard time replacing only the occurrence of the version property value in my package.json file

what i tried

CURRENT_VERSION=$(node -p "require('./package.json').version")
sed  -i '0,/$CURRENT_VERSION/{s//1.0.2/}' package.json

-- file doesn't change --

my package.json file

{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "demo-dep": "1.0.0"
  }
}

>Solution :

Parsing json files with sed is too prone to errors, try to avoid that and use specialized tools for the job.

npm itself can be used to set versions hassle-free, see https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-version

In your case running npm version 1.0.2 should work

If you still want to use sed – something like this should work

sed -i "0,/$CURRENT_VERSION/ s/$CURRENT_VERSION/1.0.2/"

But if npm is not an option – i suggest you to use jq

tmp=$(mktemp); jq '.version = "1.0.2"' package.json > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" package.json

it will certainly be less error-prone