RE: sed & or

| as or is a GNU extension to sed, and that is probably why it isn't
working.
sed -e 's|<Tag />|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' -e 's|<Tag

</Tag>|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path

or
sed -e 's|<Tag />|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path | sed -e
's|<Tag/></Tag>|<Tag>Value</Tag>|'

Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Justin Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 11:25 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: sed & or

Can anyone tell me how to get sed to work with an OR pattern match?

If I try

the standard pipe character, the command fails. I found on Google to

escape

the pipe with a backslash. That command runs, but the pattern doesn't
match.

Here's what I have that works (just one pattern):
sed 's|<Tag />|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path

This command runs but doesn't match either pattern:
sed 's|<Tag />\|<Tag></Tag>|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path

TIA
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