Issue with Sed Command

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello ,

I am trying to replace a word :: complete to Failed .

work: complete

Sed command which i am using is given below ::

sed s/work: complete/Failed/g temp1.txt > temp2.txt (Sed command is grabled if i use the above .. because of space which is there between work: and complete. I dont want to replace other words which has Complete.

Because i dont want to mess up other word which is having complete.

Please help me on this issue .. thanks !!

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You should probably put quotes arount it.

Also you are replacing two words (work: complete) with one word (Failed)

Try

sed "s/work: complete/work: failed/g" temp1.txt > temp2.txt
3

Subtle difference:

sed -e "s/work: complete/work: Failed/g" temp1.txt > temp2.txt

As "scottn" implies, please show exact examples of before and after text.

4

Forgetting the -e (it works fine without it), I purposely wrote "failed" in lower case. Why purposely replace a word with a lowercase first letter with one with an uppercase letter?!

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awk '{gsub("work: complete","Failed")}1' file
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Thanks Everyone!!

I just wanted to replace Failed which is associated with Machine .

Thanks!!

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that is

[code]
:1,$s/work: complete/work: failed/g