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OS X + Sed: “extra characters at the end of l command” Error #18

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lmquang opened this issue Feb 19, 2018 · 0 comments
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OS X + Sed: “extra characters at the end of l command” Error #18

lmquang opened this issue Feb 19, 2018 · 0 comments
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lmquang commented Feb 19, 2018 •
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Unlike Ubuntu, OS X requires the extension to be explicitly specified. The workaround is to set an empty string:

$ sed -i '' 's/megatron/pony/g' /path/to/file.txt

Add the -i option to sed to save the result back to input.txt.

https://myshittycode.com/2014/07/24/os-x-sed-extra-characters-at-the-end-of-l-command-error/
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jakobjjw added a commit to jakobjjw/pyatv that referenced this issue Feb 26, 2022
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Fix sed command in setup_dev_env.sh for macOS
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The empty arg in the sed command is required to work on macOS (compare to: lmquang/til#18)
postlund pushed a commit to postlund/pyatv that referenced this issue May 11, 2022
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Fix sed command in setup_dev_env.sh for macOS
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The empty arg in the sed command is required to work on macOS (compare to: lmquang/til#18)
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