Question

I have a file like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I would like to achieve this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin [e-mail]
        ServerName domain.com
        ServerAlias www.domain.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I tired this but the line carriage doesn’t work properly.
I even tried \r\n without luck.

sudo sed -i "s/webmaster@localhost/[e-mail]\rServerName domain.com \rServerAlias www.domain.com/" /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain

I get this weird character there between:

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
        ServerAdmin [e-mail] ^MServerName domain.com ^MServerAlias www.domain.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

What am I missing?

Many Thanks,

Answer 1

The Unix text file line ending char is \n, ASCII 0x0A (new line/line feed). \r 0xOD is a carriage return.

Replace \r by \n in your sed expression and you should be good to go.