replace file path name from multiple file using sed

Question

I want to replace <lexicon uri="file://C:/image/png/grammars/custom/image-custom.lex?SWI.type=backup"/><lexicon uri="file://C:/image/jpg/grammars/custom/image-dot-custom.lex?SWI.type=backup"/> with null in multiple files.

The code is given below.

sed -i s|<lexicon uri="file://C:/image/png/grammars/custom/image-custom.lex?SWI.type=backup"/><lexicon uri="file://C:/image/jpg/grammars/custom/image-dot-custom.lex?SWI.type=backup"/>||g *

Here I am getting this error:

< was unexpected at this time.

Please clarify for me what is not working here.

Answer 1

Could you please try following and let me know if this helps you. By using # as sed's separator you need not to escape / in it only need to escape ., ? not to take their special meaning

sed -E 's#<lexicon uri="file://C:/image/png/grammars/custom/image-custom\.lex\?SWI\.type=backup"/><lexicon uri="file://C:/image/jpg/grammars/custom/image-dot-custom\.lex\?SWI\.type=backup"/>##' Input_file

Tested it with:

sed --version
GNU sed version 4.2.1