Using SED to replace a line with spaces

DustinB3403

I'm trying to replace a line in a file using sed.

so sed -i 's~Your sentence that needs to be replaced~New sentence goes here~g' /file/path/file

Should work, right? It doesn't result in an error when running my command, but the file doesn't get changed.

Looking for guidance.

DustinB3403

Paging @travisdh1 @scottalanmiller @JaredBusch

One of you three should know how to do this.

bnrstnr

That looks good to me and works fine here.

Only thing that comes to mind is the file permissions?

DustinB3403

@bnrstnr Okay, will try it again. And I'm running this as root, so not sure.

JaredBusch

I typically use / instead of ~ for the delimiter, looks right.

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch said in Using SED to replace a line with spaces:

I typically use / instead of ~ for the delimiter, looks right.

Have to use ~ because I'm adding a URL in the part that's being replaced.

Also that did work, not sure why it wasn't showing the change first time.

Thanks for the sanity check.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said in Using SED to replace a line with spaces:

@JaredBusch said in Using SED to replace a line with spaces:

I typically use / instead of ~ for the delimiter, looks right.

Have to use ~ because I'm adding a URL in the part that's being replaced.

Also that did work, not sure why it wasn't showing the change first time.

Thanks for the sanity check.

wait...... I skimmed. I admit..

You have to escape spaces or wrap it in quotes.

Oh it worked.. then all good. Ignore me..

I'm busy unpurging email.