I need to change every occurrence of ! to : as field separators in a group file.
sed 's/!/:/g' filename > newfilename
But I get the error /: Event not found?
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Chris Seymour
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1works for me (tm) `$ echo 'this!is!a!test!line' | sed 's/!/:/g' this:is:a:test:line` can you be a bit more specific? – Fredrik Pihl May 07 '13 at 14:45
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I get "/: Event not found. – user2358660 May 07 '13 at 14:51
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You are using csh so the ! is being interpreted to fix this escape the ! or just use bash:
sed 's/\!/:/g' file > outfile
With csh the ! used for command history reference and it works even inside a pair of apostrophes ' or quotation marks ", unless escaped with a backslash \.
Chris Seymour
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I would verify the file existence and file permissions maybe, because the sed line works just fine:
[root@hacklab5 ~]# cat /tmp/sed.org
dewed!Ddew!de
dewwe!ds!dewe
[root@hacklab5 ~]# sed 's/!/:/g' /tmp/sed.org
dewed:Ddew:de
dewwe:ds:dewe
[root@hacklab5 ~]# sed 's/!/:/g' /tmp/sed.org > /tmp/sed.new
[root@hacklab5 ~]# cat /tmp/sed.new
dewed:Ddew:de
dewwe:ds:dewe
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