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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unterminated `s' command Post 302542921 by avinthm on Friday 29th of July 2011 03:24:51 AM
Old 07-29-2011
sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unterminated `s' command
I have read many threads, but I still didn't find the right answer. May be i didn't find the right thread, though are so many threads for the same question.

Basically the situation is - find date in a file and replace it with another date. (its not homework, its part of lot of a big processing, so just extracting this piece of problem)
A file would contain records like this
john 2011/06/28 11:16:14
smith 2011/06/28 12:46:10
jessica 2011/06/28 06:16:40

I need to find john, replace the date on the same line with another date. I can find the required line, i am facing problem replacing the date. Here is the extracted code.

record="john 2011/06/28 11:16:14"
oldDate="2011/06/28 11:16:14"
newDate="2011/06/28 45:56:67"
echo $record | sed 's|'$oldDate'|'$newDate'|g'

Hence i get
sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unterminated `s' command

I got to know it has to do with the characters "\" & ":", but what exactly is the problem and what is the solution?
Can anybody explain me please?

---------- Post updated at 12:54 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:48 PM ----------

Just figured out that I could replace the date and time separately, but not together. I think the space between the date and time is the problem.
Am I right?
 

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	      set date as a `static' one. The above mentioned system calls will always return the date	passed	as  a  parameter  of  the  program
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