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I have a sql file of a wordpress database. I am moving to another server which the document root is different.
The old document root was /home/saeid/public_html
The new document root is /home/saeid/www/domain.com/html
I want to replace all the occurrences of old path with new path.
I have seen this example which replaces foo with bar...but as I want to replace path which itself has "/" characters in it...I am not sure if it would the job. sed -i -e 's/foo/bar/g' filename
Just use a different delimiter:
sed -i 's|foo|bar|g' filename
So, in your case:
sed -i 's|/home/saeid/public_html|/home/saeid/www/domain.com/html|g' file
This is mentioned in info sed:
The syntax of the s (as in substitute) command is ‘s/regexp/replacement/flags’. The / characters may be uniformly replaced by any other single character within any given s command. The / character (or whatever other character is used in its stead) can appear in the regexp or replacement only if it is preceded by a \ character.
