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Use sed to replace value of key-value pair
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sed-replace.md 
sed -i '/^old-value /s/=.*$/=new-value/' file-name

Example

cat terraform.tfvars.example project_id = "gcp-123"

sed -i '/^project_id /s/=.*$/=gcp-456/' terraform.tfvars.example

replaces gcp-123 with gcp-456

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