Friday, 9 September 2022

sed Search and Replace with forward slash "/"

I always enjoy performing search and replace using sed command when I need to edit the same thing over multiple files. Usually the syntax that I use is as follow:

sed -i 's/search/replacement/' *.txt

This will replace all the word "search" with "replacement" in all files that ended with txt. 

But what if you want to replace the word "search" with "replace/ment". You just need to do minor adjustment as follow:

sed -i "s|search|replace/ment|" *.txt

Usually I omit the "-i" first to see the changes on the screen to make sure that the text are replaced properly before adding "-i" to perform the actual changes. 

Until next time!!! 

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