On 02/18/2016 10:27 AM, Mike - st257 wrote: > ( You forgot to escape the space before 60000 in the first sed expression > you provided. ) True, but you shouldn't need to escape spaces at all: sed -i 's/#Port 22/Port 60000/; s/#PermitRootLogin yes/PermitRootLogin yes/' > Though I will note there is some sort of syntax error with the > PermitRootLogin sed expression (present in the original you provided). I > spent a moment looking at it and the problem with that second expression > evades me right now. I ran the command he provided and didn't see a problem. What did you see?