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Perfect. How would I change the delimiter? One of the values is a pathname so I'm trying to change the delimiter to a pipe. I've tried replacing all of the delimiters as well as just the two following the 's' and both error out. -sed -i "/\[shovel\]/,/^$/ s|home = .*|home = /home/test/" file gives me: sed: -e expression #1, char 48: unterminated 's' command and -sed -i "|\[shovel\]|,|^$| s|home = .*|home = /home/test/" file gives me: sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: '|'

user212683
– user212683

2017-01-27 17:01:08 +00:00
Commented Jan 27, 2017 at 17:01
You just need to put the last delimiter in: sed '/\[shovel\]/,/^$/ s|enabled = 0|enabled = 1|' @user1930831 :)

Zanna
– Zanna

2017-01-27 18:50:58 +00:00
Commented Jan 27, 2017 at 18:50

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