Try the following:
$file="D:\home\App_Config\Sitecore.config"
$regex = '(?<=<setting name="Media\.MediaLinkServerUrl" value=")[^"]*'
(Get-Content $file) -replace $regex, 'https://newurl.com' | Set-Content $file
* Re Set-Content: In Windows PowerShell it uses your system’s legacy single-byte character encoding by default (based on the active ANSI code page), so you may want to use -Encoding to control the output file’s encoding explicitly; PowerShell [Core] 6+ defaults to BOM-less UTF-8.
- Also note the required
(...)around theGet-Contentcall to ensure that the pipeline can write back to the same file thatGet-Contenthas read from. - If there’s a chance that the opening tag in question (
<setting ...>) spans multiple lines, use
Get-Content -Raw $file(PSv3+) to read the entire file content as a single string (thanks, deadlydog);
without-Raw,Get-Contentreturns an array of strings, representing the input lines.
Due to using a regular expression to match your existing setting, any text currently inside value="..." is matched, so this command will work even when run repeatedly.
By contrast, what you tried uses an effective literal (... value=" ") to find what to replace, and after the 1st – successful – run, that literal no longer matches, and subsequent runs have no effect.
The command above uses a streamlined approach to replacement:
-
(?<=<setting name="Media.MediaLinkServerUrl" value=")is a look-behind assertion ((?<=...)) that matches, but doesn’t capture what it matches: it finds the part up to and including the opening"of the value you’re trying to replaces, without making that prefix a part of what will get replaced. -
[^"]*then matches the entire value, up to, but not including the closing". ([^"]is a character set that matches any character other than (^) a", and*finds any (possibly empty) sequence of such characters. -
Therefore, because the regex captured only the value itself, all you need to specify as the replacement string is the new value.