Sed problem

figaro · #1 (**permalink**) 01-03-2009

When installing apache22, in the file httpd.conf the following line

Code:

#ServerName www.example.com:80

needs to be replaced commonly by

Code:

ServerName localhost:80

I tried using the following

Code:

sed -i 's/#ServerName www.example.com:80/ServerName localhost:80/' /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf

but the error message was:

Code:

sed: 1: "/usr/local/etc/apache22 ...": extra characters at the end of l command

and the substitution was not made. What is the correct sed command to achieve the substitution?

EDIT: This probably has to do with the "#" at the start of the line as the man page states:

Quote:

The ``#'' and the remainder of the line are ignored (treated as a
comment), with the single exception that if the first two charac-
ters in the file are ``#n'', the default output is suppressed.
This is the same as specifying the -n option on the command line.

It would still be useful to know how to solve this problem.

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