I am trying to create the correct syntax for sed to fix a common problem via scripting. The problem is reproducible by installing MongoDB on CentOS 6.5 and results in a warning: I found, here, that there is a solution. Just edit the /etc/init.d/mongod file to remove that from line 66.

It works consistently, and now I am trying to script it using sed. I am using this line to try and do so:

I think I have this all escaped properly, but no matter what I do, it keeps giving me one of 2 errors which do not make sense to me. If I don't escape it as above, I get something to the effect of:

And with it as above (which seems right to me), I get:

Now I do know this is a hardlink and that *may* be the issue - at least I read that it does cause issues in Solaris due to an inode mismatch. But being able to edit it directly makes me think this isn't the issue here. The only other option I have is that I don't have everything escaped correctly, but I don't know what or where I am missing it.

I may be mistaken, but I assume not everyone on this site has mongodb installed or just a different version of the script. So most people here would not be able to easily reproduce that error. It would help a lot if you posted line 66, so sed specialists here can have a go at it.

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Sorry about that. Tried to be thorough and still missed one

Here is line 66 of init.d/mongod:

So if I can just put in the " after $OPTIONS and delete the rest, it works fine.

And adding to original post for completeness for any reading after...

Without being too creative something like this should work

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That definitely works, but it got a little too greedy. Unfortunately, there is another line checking for NUMACTL_ARGS which gets edited as well. However, that helped a lot. Looks like I was making it too difficult on myself.

I can base it off this and just change the one line. I will just add the line number before it to make it work. New command (and it appears to work on the command line - will try in the script later):

sed '66 s/ >.*$/"/' /etc/init.d/mongod

Thanks!

syg00 was faster...

But his answer will remove all redirections. I just succeeded with
That is more specific but I'm thinking way too complicated again...

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LOL - yes, but yours is closer to what I was attempting to do. I do see why syg00's solution is better, though.

Personaly I wouldn't rely on line number being always the same - a package update could change that silently by inserting lines. Better to use some unique text - "MUNGO_USER" maybe.

Well I definitely agree to that, but I was having the toughest time getting it to match consistently. I am admittedly new to this, but my regex expressions never seem to turn up what they should. That said, I think I finally have it figured out. Still have to test it to make sure there isn't other parts the Regex changes, but this *seems* to work (daemon may be another good one since I didn't find another entry for it) -

*NOTE: This is more for future readers who may want/need a better solution than my original.

Sorry, I meant to use the text as an "address" - where you had "66" previously. This should select lines containing that text, and only then attempt the update.

Now THAT is cool. I didn't even know you could do that. Always learning. Thanks again.