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Gabriel Petrovay
Asked: 2013-10-15 05:23:29 +0800 CST

sed -i does not work when run with sudo

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The file I want to modify belongs to root. I want to change this file with a sudo-er

sudo sed -i 's/Accept .* LC_\*$/& GIT_*/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

(trying to append GIT_* to the Accept sshd config directive)

But the file remains unchanged:

$ grep Accept /etc/ssh/sshd_config 
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
sed

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You missed .* after Accept:

    sudo sed -i 's/Accept.* .* LC_\*$/& GIT_*/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
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