The problem is not the spaces, the problem is the "\" which becomes an
escape character, so sed is looking for c:usersfreditunes mediamusic
I created a test file with references in it as per your C dir example
(Called it test2)
After running an updated command to allow the back slashes to be seen:
sed -i 's^c:\\users\\fred\\itunes\\itunes
media\\music\\^x:\\anotherfolder\\^g' test2
It updated the file with the directories changed.
[marc@Surface7~]$ cat test2
c:\users\fred\itunes\itunes media\music\1.3mu
c:\users\fred\itunes\itunes media\music\2.3mu
c:\users\fred\itunes\itunes media\music\3.3mu
c:\users\fred\itunes\itunes media\music\4.3mu
[marc@Surface7~]$ sed -i 's#c:\\users\\fred\\itunes\\itunes
media\\music\\#x:\\anotherfolder\\#g' test2
[marc@Surface7~]$ cat test2
x:\anotherfolder\1.3mu
x:\anotherfolder\2.3mu
x:\anotherfolder\3.3mu
x:\anotherfolder\4.3mu
Regards
Marc
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 10:56, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire <
hampshire@???> wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
>
> I’ve just moved media players (to mediamonkey from itunes). I can import
> playlists but the old ones
>
> are pointing at my previous library which I’ve now moved. I want to
> change all references to
>
>
>
> c:\users\fred\itunes\itunes media\music\
>
>
>
> to
>
>
>
> x:\anotherfolder\
>
>
>
> for every .m3u file in a given folder. I’ve made a folder that just
> contains the .m3u files by copying so , after much googling, I’ve got this:
>
>
>
> sed -i 's#c:\users\fred\itunes\itunesmedia\music\#x:\anotherfolder\#g' *
>
>
>
> but I’m getting sed: -e expression #1, char 55: unterminated `s' command
>
>
>
> I dunno whether it’s because my first string has spaces or the character
> ‘s’ but I can’t make it work. As ever (in my experience) I don’t know
> whether I’m one keystroke away or should be using awk or something similar
> like awk.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
>
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