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edit approved Oct 20, 2015 at 0:19
Thomas Dickey
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How can I search and replace text that containcontains / with sed?

I currently use the following command which doesn't work

sed -i "s/queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-secondary/queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-$newnumber/g" /etc/postfix-$newnumber/main.cf

How can I search and replace text that contain / with sed?

I currently use the following which doesn't work

sed -i "s/queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-secondary/queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-$newnumber/g" /etc/postfix-$newnumber/main.cf

How can I search and replace text that contains / with sed?

I currently use the following command which doesn't work

sed -i "s/queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-secondary/queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-$newnumber/g" /etc/postfix-$newnumber/main.cf
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sed - find and replace text containing "/"

How can I search and replace text that contain / with sed?

I currently use the following which doesn't work

sed -i "s/queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-secondary/queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-$newnumber/g" /etc/postfix-$newnumber/main.cf