... 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 ...

... moon! We are live! 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 Chris Tracewell(@ctracewell): Maybe not weird but I have owned teammascot.com for 23 years. Was my ecommerce site in the early 2000 s. It s been defunct for a long while ...