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Old 04-17-2018
Word change in a document
I have a bunch of documents where I need to change the word pi to pisignage.
No big deal there:

Code:
sed -i -e 's/pi/spisignage/g' /path/to/file

However it is finding things like the word stopping and making the word stoppisignageng.

Any suggestions to just find the word pi and change it?

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Old 04-17-2018
Welcome to the forum.

Please don't post duplicates, and use code tags.
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Old 04-17-2018
figured it out. Mind fart on my side.

Code:
sed -i -e 's/\bpi\b/pisignage/g'

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Old 04-17-2018
Some sed provide "word boundary" designators, like \b or \> and \< in GNU sed.

Depending on your OS (which you fail to mention, btw), your sed version may or may not offer equivalent syntax.
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