Took two hours to begin learning about a sed command.
Spent a half hour testing it locally on the MacOS terminal. I didn't wanna screw it up. Made several mistakes on local. But eventually I think I got the hang of it.
Now it was time to run it on live. I'm nervous again even though I just spent a while testing. Ran the sed command to search and replace text.
Worked like a charm.
Pretty much a trial by fire moment. No mentor to show me how. Just me and my ability to read to documentation and apply it. That's all I had at my disposal.
I know server admins do this shit like in a couple of minutes but at the time this was me venturing into servers and making a change on live site and reading a man page and blog tutorial. So for me it was a big deal. It taught me not to fear to learn the shell.
I've done way harder things since but I still remember this moment of almost a decade ago.
