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Are the double ' after the -i option intentional? Didn't need them.

raphinesse
– raphinesse

2015-03-26 09:50:10 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 9:50
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+1 for considering OSX systems in your response <3

Jake Ireland
– Jake Ireland

2020-05-30 23:41:38 +00:00
Commented May 30, 2020 at 23:41
For some reason I continued to get a unterminated 's's Error every time I tried your command. This was because there was a space in-between the lines and the s. Had to remove the space to get it to work sed -i '2,4s/^/#/' bla.conf

Dave
– Dave

2021-12-03 16:43:50 +00:00
Commented Dec 3, 2021 at 16:43

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