sed code to match http://www.domain.com/ and replace with just a / in all files in a directory

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I've been searching for this answer for three hours now and I still can't get anything to work. When I run things like this:

 sed -i 's/http\:\/\/www\.domain\.org\//\//g checkout_*.php

It drops me into another command line (sorry, I'm very new to sed).

I just want to cd to a dir, grep the dir to see if the string is there then run a replace so I can change my paths from absolute to relative.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '11 at 22:42

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You need to close your '. You can also make your command cleaner by using a different sed delimiter to / so that you don't have to escape all those forward slashes in your URL. For example, you can use !, as shown below:

sed -i 's!http://www\.domain\.org/!/!g' checkout_*.php

answered Mar 04 '11 at 22:42

dogbane

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The sed command is slightly different for mac. You need to specify a backup extension immediately following the -i paramaeter, eg. '.original' as noted here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4247319/4158458 – brianfit May 31 '16 at 08:55

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '11 at 22:35

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You just appear to be missing the closing '

sed -i 's/http\:\/\/www\.domain\.org\//\//g' checkout_*.php

Should do what you want ok. But I'd warn you against doing the -i switch without first doing a dry run.

answered Mar 04 '11 at 22:35

ocodo

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Yeah, you both were right. Sorry I didn't catch it before posting. thanks very much! – Lynn Mar 04 '11 at 22:54

sed code to match http://www.domain.com/ and replace with just a / in all files in a directory

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