Help w/ sed parsing special characters

Hello,

I'm trying to change the image paths in a directory of files.

My first question is that I'm trying to use this line to test the change in one file:


sed -e 's/images/http://cache.somewebsite.com/images' ajax_scaffold.css

When I try that I get this:

sed: 1: "s/images/http://cache.r ...": bad flag in substitute command: '/'

I did a test by running this:

sed -e 's/images/duh/' ajax_scaffold.css

and the output said the changes had worked but when I went to the actual file, the changes didn't show?


Also, when I find a command that works, is it possible to specify a directory

and run this command on every file w/in the directory?

 

you escape the slashes...

Code:

sed -e "s/images/http:\/\/cache.somewebsite.com\/images/" file

 

hello, and thanks for your help.


this is the solution that worked for me:

Code:

for file in *; do
    sed -e 's/\/images/http:\/\/cache\.reverbnation\.com\/images/g' "$file" > "${file}.sub"
    rm "$file"
    mv "${file}.sub" "${file}"
done