Re: Multihomed Configuration

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:34:53AM -0400, David Ford wrote:
sed -i -s "s/THE_PLACEHOLDER/$MYNEW/g" sshd_config

That requires GNU sed 4.0 or higher. Not everyone has that. It's
far better to use perl instead.

perl -pi -e "s/THE_PLACEHOLDER/$MYNEW/g" sshd_config

If you try your sed command on a non-GNU (or sufficiently old GNU)
system, you'll get an error:

pegasus:~$ sed -i s/hi/bye/ foo
sed: unknown option -- i
usage: sed script [-an] [file ...]
sed [-an] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]

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