sed issues on Solaris, search/replace not working

[cheguvera]

Hi,

I am on Sun Solaris and struggling with a very simple sed command.
I want to search and replace, ignoring the case.
Lets say, I have a file,

Abcd
abCd
abcD

And I issue a command,

sed -e 's/abcd/CORRECT/i' my_file

This should give output like,

CORRECT
CORRECT
CORRECT

But, my above sed command is giving error like,

sed: command garbled: s/abcd/CORRECT/i

If I take out the 'i' from the command, it runs but then its case sensitive.

What is the flag for ignoring the case on Solaris ?
What can be another way out of this issue ?

Please help.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

sed 's/[aA][bB][cC][dD]/CORRECT/' my_file

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[cheguvera]

Hi PHV,

Thanks for the reply.

Initially I thaught of this option, but actually, I have nearly 10 possible words to replace and the words are made up of 10 to 20 charactors each.

Basically, I have no option other than what you have suggested. But, previously on AIX and other Unix flavours I have used this flag 'i' for ignorecase. So, was trying to find if there is a equivallant to this. Or if there is another version of sed, like there are grep and egrep.

Thanks again.

 

[feherke]

Hi

While in the address you have to use upper case [tt]I[/tt], I would try the [tt]s///[/tt]'s [tt]i[/tt] modifier also in upper case.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[cheguvera]

Thanks Feherke.

But with upper case I, its the same error.

 

[PHV]

echo ":set ic\n1,\$s!abcd!CORRECT!\n:wq" | ex -s my_file

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[cheguvera]

Hi PHV,

That was cool.
That worked and my goal is met.

Now I am left with just curiocity about sed not working.

Thanks again

 

[p5wizard]

Well, some seds have the i modifier on the s/orig/new/ command, and some seds don't. Check your man page. It's not in my AIX 5.3 sed's man page.

HTH,

p5wizard