Question

been trying to use see for hours. Can get it working with normal strings but not urls with slashes.

trying to replace /var/www/vhosts/sandbox.modernactivity.co.uk/ to nothing.

sed 's%var%%' /Volumes/WEB_BACKUP/backups/ukfast/scripts/INCLUDE_list.txt

spits out //www/vhosts/sandbox.modernactivity.co.uk/restofurl/ and the original was /var/www/vhosts/sandbox.modernactivity.co.uk/restofurl/. Just can’t get it to recognise the slashes.

It also doesn’t seem to be updating the file?

any tips welcome!

Answer 1

is this what you want?

sed 's#/var.*\.co\.uk/##' file

test:

kent$  echo "foo/foo/var/www/vhosts/sandbox.modernactivity.co.uk/bar/bar"|sed 's#/var.*\.co\.uk/##'
foo/foobar/bar

if you want to change the original file with sed, add -i option. like:

sed -i 's/foo/bar/' file