Linux SED Command equal to string not contain

Question

Currently having a problem with using SED command

For example: I have 2 files

First file contain abc Second file contain abcaaa

Sed command i am using

sed -i "s/'abc'/change/g"

However my result for both file turn out to be

first file : change second file changeaaa

How do i make it only equal to abc and not contain abc?

See: [The Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ](http://stackoverflow.com/a/22944075/3776858) — Cyrus, Jun 03 '17 at 08:24

tso · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-03T14:43:18.067

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with GNU sed:

sed -r 's/\babc\b/change/g' file

edited Jun 03 '17 at 14:43

answered Jun 03 '17 at 08:39

tso

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