{"id":3737,"date":"2016-01-26T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ed.gs\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:01:04","slug":"macos-sed-invalid-command-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ed.gs\/2016\/01\/26\/macos-sed-invalid-command-code\/","title":{"rendered":"MacOS sed &#8220;Invalid Command Code&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The version of sed that is shipped with OS X\/MacOS is different to that of most Linux distros in such that you have to issue an extra few characters to get it to do the same command.<\/p>\n<p>If you do the following you will result in a &#8220;invalid command code&#8221; error when trying to delete line 39 of filenamehere.log:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">sed -i 39d filenamehere.log<\/pre>\n<p>The OS X\/MacOS version needs a value for the -i flag so you don&#8217;t inadvertently overwrite a file if you don&#8217;t mean to. 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