invalid command code despite escaping periods using sed

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Being forced to use CVS for a current client and the address changed for the remote repo  The only way I can find to change the remote address in my local code is a recursive search and replace   However  with the sed command I d expect to work   find    -type f -exec sed -i  s 192 168 20 1 new domain com           I get an error for every file   sed  1      file path       invalid command code     I ve tried to escape the periods in the sed match replacement but that doesn t solve anything

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Simply add an extension to the -i flag  This basically creates a backup file with the original file  sed -i bakup   s linenumber number      vimrc sed will execute without the error

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If you are on a OS X  this probably has nothing to do with the sed command  On the OSX version of sed  the -i option expects an extension argument so your command is actually parsed as the extension argument and the file path is interpreted as the command code   Try adding the -e argument explicitly and giving    as argument to -i   find    -type f -exec sed -i    -e  s 192 168 20 1 new domain com           See this

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Probably your new domain contain     If so  try using separator other than   in sed  e g       etc   find    -type f -exec sed -i  s 192 168 20 1 new domain com           It would also be good to enclose s    in single quote rather than double quote to avoid variable substitution or any other unexpected behaviour

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You simply forgot to supply an argument to -i  Just change -i to -i      Of course that means you don t want your files to be backed up  otherwise supply your extension of choice  like -i  bak

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On OS X nothing helps poor builtin sed to become adequate  The solution is   brew install gnu-sed   And then use gsed instead of sed  which will just work as expected

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