sed: -e expression #1, char 23: unterminated `s' command

Question

I want to replace filter = [ "a/.*/" ] with

filter = [ "a\/sda1\/", "a\/sdb\/", "r/\.\*\/"]

I have tried this regex

sed -i -r 's/\s+filter\s=.*/'filter = [ "a\/sda1\/","a\/sdb\/", "r/\.\*\/"]'/' conf But getting this error. Please advice.

sed: -e expression #1, char 23: unterminated `s' command

@CasimiretHippolyte got this error `sed: -e expression #1, char 56: unknown option to `s'` — Harikrishnan, Sep 17 '14 at 05:49
If you give example text (before/after), we may be able to create a solution for you that even may be better. — Jotne, Sep 17 '14 at 05:50
@Jotne It's in my question itself . That is the replacement exactly I wanted to do. — Harikrishnan, Sep 17 '14 at 05:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '14 at 08:53

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The problem is you are using the / delimiter more in the field ,instead of / use some other delimiter like s#pattern#replace# . Another thing is you have to replace each and every special meaning character to literal values . So The below command are helpful to get expect result.

sed  -r -i -e 's#(filter = )(\[ "a/\.\*/" \])#\1[ "a\/sda1\/", "a\/sdb\/", "r/\.\*\/"]#g' conf

edited Sep 17 '14 at 08:53

Harikrishnan

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answered Sep 17 '14 at 05:44

Kalanidhi

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@Harikrishnan,You are most welcome. – Kalanidhi Sep 17 '14 at 06:14

sed: -e expression #1, char 23: unterminated `s' command

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