Getting sed error

Question

I\'m new to shell scripting but getting this error and cant figure out what up.

sed: 1: \"/Users/local/Do ...\": extra characters at the end of d command
sed: 1         


        

Answer 1

Given that sed seems to think you're running a delete line command (d), you may want to output the command to see what's actually in that environment variable of yours:

for fl in $(S_convertPath ${RESOURCE_DIR}/db)/db.changelog-*xml; do
    echo sed -i "s/HOSTNAME/${PSM_SERVER_ADDRESS}/g" $fl
done

There's a good chance the PSM_SERVER_ADDRESS is corrupting your sed command (and may need to be processed to make it clean). One way to do this (provided you have a recent enough sed) would be to use delimiters that do not appear in the environment variable, for example:

sed -i "s?HOSTNAME?${PSM_SERVER_ADDRESS}?g" $fl

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Since you've accepted this answer, I may as well add the resolution for the additional problem you found. It appears that BSD sed, unlike Linux, has a requirement that you provide an extension to the -i option. So, while Linux allows:

sed -i "sed-command"

to edit in-place, the BSD variant needs to have:

sed -i "" "sed-command"

with an empty backup suffix.

Without that, sed may use your command as the extension and your first file name as the command.