I have a bunch of documents where I need to change the word pi to pisignage .
No big deal there:
sed -i -e 's/pi/spisignage/g' /path/to/file
However it is finding things like the word stopping and making the word stoppisignageng.
Any suggestions to just find the word pi and change it?
Welcome to the forum.
Please don't post duplicates, and use code tags.
figured it out. Mind fart on my side.
sed -i -e 's/\bpi\b/pisignage/g'
Some sed provide "word boundary" designators, like \b or \> and \< in GNU sed .
Depending on your OS (which you fail to mention, btw), your sed version may or may not offer equivalent syntax.