> sed's "s" command should be terminated with a final "/". If nothing > comes after the "s" command, then you can leave out the final "/", but > in your case, you need it: > sed 's/old1/new1/;s/old2/new2/;...' >
I followed the syntax properly. But thats not the problem. Problem is how long can the concatenated string can be ? -Mahesh