I’m trying to run a command on macos terminal. The command is to create a .txt file put a string inside of it and then replace a word inside of the .txt file.
I keep getting the error: sed: bad flag in substitute command: '}'
The commands
echo "This is a test file" > test2.txt
sed '/test/{s/test/test2/g}' test2.txt
I also tried:
echo "This is a test file" > test2.txt
sed '/test/\\{s#test#test2#g\\}' test2.txt
But the error here was: sed: 1: "/test/\\{s#test#test2#g\\}": invalid command code \
My assumption is I need to escape the characters but I’m unsure how.
>Solution :
Commands ends with a newline or with ;.
sed '/test/{s/test/test2/g;}'
or
sed '/test/{s/test/test2/g
}'
but just:
sed '/test/s/test/test2/g'
Fun fact: empty regex repeats last regex, so you can just:
sed '/test/s//test2/g'
or really the address is not needed, just:
sed 's/test/test2/g'