Title: Bash script to edit wp-config.php and turn on debugging
Last modified: September 29, 2020

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# Bash script to edit wp-config.php and turn on debugging

 *  [siddjain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siddjain/)
 * (@siddjain)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bash-script-to-edit-wp-config-php-and-turn-on-debugging/)
 * I am wondering if anyone knows how to automate this using bash:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/#example-wp-config-php-for-debugging](https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/#example-wp-config-php-for-debugging)
 * i.e., I am looking for a bash script that will edit wp-config.php and make changes
   to it to turn on debugging.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bash-script-to-edit-wp-config-php-and-turn-on-debugging/#post-13475204)
 * You’d want to use `sed` actually. Which could be called from bash.
    [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/525592/find-and-replace-inside-a-text-file-from-a-bash-command](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/525592/find-and-replace-inside-a-text-file-from-a-bash-command)
 *  Thread Starter [siddjain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siddjain/)
 * (@siddjain)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bash-script-to-edit-wp-config-php-and-turn-on-debugging/#post-13520212)
 * Yes my question is does anyone have the code to do it? I tried using sed but 
   did not succeed.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bash-script-to-edit-wp-config-php-and-turn-on-debugging/#post-13520212)
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