On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > 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: > Right, I notice that now. And those expressions can be combined in one string and not two expressions. ;-) > > 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? I know I saw an error message yesterday, but I don't see one now (ran it without the "in place" replace option as a test). *shrugs* Now I look like I'm seeing things. :-/ Thank goodness it's Friday. -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //