sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence and locale settings

Asked Nov 18 '17 at 08:04

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I want to replace words in files recursively. This command:

find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/myOldTag/myNewTag/g' {} \;

does the job but I get a number of error messages:

sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence

My locale settings:

LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

I tried also:

LANG=sl $$ find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/myOldTag/myNewTag/g' {} \;

but without success, error messages are the same.

asked Nov 18 '17 at 08:04

andrej

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Have you tried `LC_ALL=C sed ....`? – Mark Setchell Nov 18 '17 at 10:07
I tried, it works, thank you. – andrej Nov 19 '17 at 11:30
To be quite precise, my initial command did not work, this one did the job: `LC_ALL=C find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/myOldTag/myNewTag/g' {} \;` – andrej Nov 19 '17 at 11:33
A very detailed explanation and discussion of alternatives can be found here: `https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19242275/re-error-illegal-byte-sequence-on-mac-os-x` – August Oct 20 '22 at 07:17

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