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The following works great:

phpmemory_limit=256M #or what ever you want it set to
sed -i 's/memory_limit = 16M/memory_limit = '${phpmemory_limit}'/' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

If the memory_limit is set to 16M, but I've found that in some distributions it doesn't default to 16M, but instead will default to 32M. So my question is how to I have SED account for that and replace whatever the number is to ${phpmemory_limit}?

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you can use regexp - for instance:

phpmemory_limit=256M #or what ever you want it set to
sed -i 's/memory_limit = .*/memory_limit = '${phpmemory_limit}'/' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
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Assuming that:

  • Values will always be specified in Mb.
  • You wish to preserve trailing comments.
  • You don't wish to modify any commented occurances.
  • phpmemory_limit only contains an integer.

    sed -ri 's/^(memory_limit = )[0-9]+(M.*)$/\1'${phpmemory_limit}'\2/' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
    

This uses..

  • Backreferences to shorten the regex and preserve the comment.
  • seds extended regex support.
  • It's important that the shortened options are specified in that order, otherwise it will create a backup with the file extension r.

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