Lingua Franca - Error on Task 16 (sed)

[tapizin]

I used the proper code given in the solutions:

sed -i ‘s/Lingua-Franca/Lingua Franca/g’ */ *.txt

however my Terminal returns the following:

sed: 1: “africa/afrihili.txt”: command a expects \ followed by text

Anyone can help? I’m using zsh for Mac

https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-the-command-line/articles/command-line-offline-project

[tgrtim]

This issue has cropped up before, see the following thread(s) for a little discussion and some potential solutions-

Lingua Franca - step 16

Hi all. Step 16 doesn’t seem to work for me on MacOS. Information I found online seems inconclusive but the fault seems to be MacOS specific. Any idea what causes the problem here? Thanks lingua-franca👽$ sed -i 's/Lingua-Franca/Lingua Franca/g' */*.txt sed: 1: "africa/afrihili.txt": command a expects \ followed by text lingua-franca👽$ grep -Rl 'Lingua-Franca' */*.txt | wc -l 6 lingua-franca👽$ Edit The following version worked. I skipped -i and it worked. sed 's/Lingua-Franca/Lingua…

Quirk running Sed on Mac

Hi all, I ran into a problem during Lingua Franca. the sed command returned an error invalid command W. Searching for an answer brought me to this If you are on a OS X, this probably has nothing to do with the sed command. On the OSX version of sed , the -i option expects an extension argument so your command is actually parsed as the extension argument and the file path is interpreted as the command code. Try adding the -e argument explicitly and giving '' as argument to -i : sed -i '' -e "…

The instructions appear to be written for a GNU version of sed whereas the mac is using a BSD version. If you’re uncertain about the sed command on a given system then man sed may help.

[toastedpitabread]

It’s a good heads up for working with linux/unix. Different versions can give subtle but big differences (like for example, the default python3 version that installs when you’re setting things up). These are definitely things I wish I realized earlier…

[bytecoder77340]

Adding the -e argument worked on newer MacOS

sed -i’Lingua-Franca’ -e ‘s/Lingua-Franca/Lingua Franca/g’ /.txt