Question

I’m trying to use sed to change a string in large paragraph in an .xml file.

name=”m_AllowDownload”>False<

I was trying to use this line to replace the False with True.

s/name="m_AllowDownload">False</name="m_AllowDownload">True</ old_file >new_file

It works if I just target words like False but when I add the symbols it doesn’t. There are many occurrences of false so I have to be more specific than targeting that. I’m running this under the super sed executable from command line. Sorry I’m really new to this any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is because shell interprets your < and > as redirections. To avoid it you need to add ' before and after sed command:

sed 's/name="m_AllowDownload">False</name="m_AllowDownload">True</'

or " :

sed "s/name=\"m_AllowDownload\">False</name=\"m_AllowDownload\">True</"