Re: [LUG] Find & Replace across multiple files

[Tom Salmon <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> So I say:
>
> for file in *; do sed -e 's/[control-set]*[/control-set]/[comment]controls 
> removed from here[/comment]/g' $file > $file.new; mv $file.new $file; done
>
> And it says:
>
> sed: -e expression #1, char 69: Unknown option to 's' 

The first option, after the 's' ('[control-set]*[/control-set]') has to 
be a valid regular expression. You are going to have to read `man regex`.

You will most likely just have to escape some of the characters you have 
used, for example:
\[control-set]*\[\/control-set]
(may work, but check man page)

Also escape (with a '\') the '/' character in the replace string.

--
Tom Salmon



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