I’m trying to use sed as root to alter the default PS1…
The first 2 lines were just to make sure I had the syntax structured right and to see if the quotation marks made a difference,
running them consecutively allows me to change a comment near the top of the file and then change it back.
Opening the file in nano confirms the changes are effective, which should rule out ‘write permissions’.
sed -i 's/If not running interactively,/stringtoreplaceitwith/' /etc/skel/.bashrc
sed -i "s/stringtoreplaceitwith/If not running interactively,/" /etc/skel/.bashrc
sed -i "s/\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ /Replace PS1/" /etc/skel/.bashrc
I’m not sure if it’s something else about the string’s structure,
but for some reason,
It is the structure of what I’m wanting to substitue, sed sees the brackets [ ] as a range.
it’s not finding what I’d like to substitute
Is there a way to escape the brackets?
\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
