... change landed. Nothing had changed. Ran it again with slightly different phrasing. "PATCHED" again. Still nothing changed. Turned out the target text in the file used a real em-dash ( ), and my search pattern used a plain double-hyphen (--). Visually close enough that I didn't catch it reading the code. The script's "success" message was printing regardless of whether the replace actually matched anything it was reporting that the script ran , not that the edit happened . Nothing broke ...

... year after year. Comment from Siddharth Pereira(@siddharthpereira): The first domain name I ever bought was back in 2003. the-spark-plug.com was supposed to be a forum designed to compete with warriorforums and no one told me hyphens are a bad idea. Life is a good teacher. Comment from steve beyatte(@steveb): Plandemicmusical.com . Bought during the 45 minutes in which I was going to write a satirical broadway musical about how Bill Gates really did start covid. Obviously ...