Comments on: OS X + Sed: “extra characters at the end of l command” Error

By: Choon-Chern Lim

Choon-Chern Lim — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:05:33 +0000

In reply to pratel jakey. BSD's sed (used by Mac) is a little different from GNU's sed. You can get more info from here. That said, you probably can install GNU's sed on Mac using Homebrew if you wish.

By: pratel jakey

pratel jakey — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:08:59 +0000

I got it to work but can you explain _why_ that works?

By: oh la la (@trendinhastasi)

oh la la (@trendinhastasi) — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:14:23 +0000

I can’t still get the following working on macOS Sierra;

`sed -i ” ‘/^$/{N ; /second/D}’ data-with-empty-lines2.txt`

By: Asle

Asle — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:30:42 +0000

Thanks! Got the same issue with error “sed: 1: “hello.txt”: extra characters at the end of h command” so adding the empty ” solved that.
sed -i ” ‘s/FOO/BaR/g’ hello.txt

By: Christoph Ruepprich

Christoph Ruepprich — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:51:37 +0000

Thanks!