Search for strings

lesstjm · #1 (**permalink**) 04-25-2002

I am trying to replace the word ACTIVE with 2002 in a file and I am getting the following error. Does anyone know what this means?

$ sed "s/ACTIVE/2002" mydata.txt > yourdata.txt
sed: 0602-404 Function s/ACTIVE/2002 cannot be parsed.

apalex · #2 (**permalink**) 04-25-2002

try:

sed '/ACTIVE/s//2002/' mydata.txt > yourdata.txt

inpavan · #3 (**permalink**) 04-26-2002

Try

sed "s/ACTIVE/2002/g" your_file > new_file

lesstjm · #4 (**permalink**) 04-26-2002

They both work, but what is the difference between what I had:

sed "s/ACTIVE/2002" mydata.txt > yourdata.txt

and

sed "s/ACTIVE/2002/g" your_file > new_file

What does the g do?

apalex · #5 (**permalink**) 04-26-2002

you are missing a slash (/) after 2002 in your original command.

sed "s/ACTIVE/2002/" myfile.txt > yourfile.txt

this replaces the first occurrence of text ACTIVE with 2002 in each line.

g means it will replace all occurrences of the text ACTIVE with 2002.

lesstjm · #6 (**permalink**) 04-26-2002

that helps.

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