Sed: Find and Replace The Whole Line [ Regex ]

I have a line as follows in squid.conf file. My sever is hosted in a cloud:

acl verizonfios src 1.2.3.4

My ISP will force an IP address change every week or two. I would like to replace them with a new IP

acl verizonfios src 4.5.6.7

How do I replace the line starting with "acl verizonfios" with new IP address using sed and ssh?

The sed syntax is as follows to match the line starting with "acl verizonfios" and replace the whole line:

sed -i 's/find/replace/' file
sed -i 's/^acl verizonfios.*/acl verizonfios src 4.5.6.7/' file

In this example, replace an IP address with 202.1.2.3:

 
sed -i 's/^acl verizonfios.*/acl verizonfios src 202.1.2.3/' /etc/squid/squid.conf
 

You can execute the sed command using ssh:

 
ssh root@your.server.at.cloud sed -i 's/^acl verizonfios.*/acl verizonfios src 202.1.2.3/' /etc/squid/squid.conf
ssh root@your.server.at.cloud /usr/sbin/squid -k reconfigure
 

Sample shell script

#!/bin/bash
# Author: nixCraft <www.cyberciti.biz> - GPL v2.x+
# -------------------------------------------------
 
## cloud server name ##
_rserver="your.server.at.cloud"
_ruser="root"
 
## Get your public IP ##
_myip="$(/bin/curl ifconfig.me)"
_cmd1="/bin/sed -i 's/^acl verizonfios.*/acl verizonfios src ${_myip}/' /etc/squid/squid.conf"
_cmd2="/usr/sbin/squid -k reconfigure"
 
## connect to the remote box 
## update the proxy server 
## reload the proxy server
/bin/ssh ${_ruser}@${_rserver} "$_cmd1"
/bin/ssh ${_ruser}@${_rserver} "$_cmd2"
 

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