Using sed to search and replace an ip address in a file
If your version of sed
supports extended regular expressions (the -r
option), you could do something like this (which is similar to what you have in your grep
statement). Also note $newip
is outside the single quotes to allow the shell to replace it.
sed -r 's/(\b[0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\b'/"$newip"/
BTW this solution still matches strings that do not represent IP addresses. See this site under IP Adresses for more complex solutions.
sed -e 's/old ip/new ip/g' filename