Question

I’m trying to replace all occurrences of -> with .. I’ve tried the following:

sed -i s/->/./g licensewizard.cpp

But this gives me an error:

sed: -e expression #1, char 3: unterminated `s' command

I’m not sure what’s wrong since neither - nor > need to be escaped if I’m not mistaken?

Answer 1

You need to single quote your sed commands so that the shell wont try to interpret any of the chars. In this particular instance, your shell was interpreting the > character to attempt a redirection.

sed -i 's/->/./g' licensewizard.cpp