find and replace

[Raji Murthy]

I have a big file which has hardcoded text I want to find and replace.

replace "/home/emorales" with the string
"/usr/local/bin"

I am using sed command it is complaining about the "/".
sed -e 's/"/home/emorales"/"/usr/local/bin"/g' filename

Does anyone out there give me some help?

By the way this unix 11.0

Thanks

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Put the / it complains about as \/

sed -e 's/\/usr/\/lala/' file

Steve Steel

[harry d brown jr]

sed -e 's_/home/emorales_/usr/local/bin_g' filename


USE underscores (_)

You know you have to redirect the output to another filename, DO NOT USE THE ORIGINAL filename because it will clobber the process.

live free or die
harry

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Or when you want to change that in the file itself, use perl

# perl -pi -e 's:/"/home/emorales":"/usr/local/bin":g' filename

[Louis A. Lopez]

Hi,
I tried it using the sed command.
Here is what I got:

$ echo "/home/emorales" | sed 's/home\/emorales/usr\/local\/bin/'
/usr/local/bin

Hope it helps.
-Louis

[Kenny Chau]

You can put a "\" in front of the "/", eg.

sed -e 's/\/home\/user/\/home\/userabc/g'
- - - -

This will tell to treat the next character as a normal symbol.

Hope this helps.
Kenny.

[Trond Haugen]

For a big file sed is probably the best but as I love vi I can't ressist a solution for that.
:g/\/home\/emorales/s//\/usr\/local\/bin/g

Regards,
Trond

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

#!/usr/bin/sh
#
# replace text in file
#
# by bill mcnamara wimac@tidhom1g.grenoble.hp.com wma@teamlog.com
#set -x

if [ $# -lt 3 ];
then
echo "$0 old new /file.xml"
exit 1
fi

typeset OLD=$1
typeset NEW=$2
typeset FILE=$3

# cleanup

# kludge for sed end of file 'bug'
echo "" >> $FILE

# don't want to look at binaries
sed "s:$OLD:$NEW:g" $FILE > ${FILE}.bak
cp $FILE.bak $FILE

# summarise
#.end.