I'm trying to replace strings with sed in ; php_value[date.timezone] = Europe/Riga
i tried something like this:
sed -i 's/; php_value[date.timezone] = Europe/\Riga/; php_value[date.timezone] = America/\Sao_Paulo/g' file
Output: sed: -e expression #1, char 47: extra characters after command
You can use
sed -i 's/; php_value\[date\.timezone] = Europe\/Riga/; php_value[date.timezone] = America\/Sao_Paulo/g' file
See the online demo.
NOTE:
[ and . are special regex metacharacters and need to be escaped to match literal [ and ., hence, \[ and \. in the regex part/ is a regex delimiter char here, and should also be escaped. To escape /, use \/. Well, if you use another regex delimiter char, you will have no need escaping /, e.g.sed -i 's,; php_value\[date\.timezone] = Europe/Riga,; php_value[date.timezone] = America/Sao_Paulo,g' file
See the commas as regex delimiters here.