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Date:      Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:29:55 +0100 (MET)
From:      Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
To:        =?iso-8859-9?Q?Malik_B=FClent?= <bmalik@ihlas.net.tr>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is there a "replace command" ? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212021326480.1796-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se>
In-Reply-To: <012401c299fc$ed221f80$dc96eed5@ymmaslak>

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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Bülent wrote:

> On Freebsd4.x
> I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones
> For example a file
> touch  /var/qmail/1
> touch  /var/qmail/2
> touch  /var/qmail/3
> touch  /var/qmail/4
> touch  /var/qmail/5
> touch  /var/qmail/6
> I want to change "touch" with "rm"
> How can i replace a newones in stead of a lot of  expressions in a file on
> FreeBSD ?
> Which command(s) do i have to use ?

man sed(1)

# cat file | sed s/touch/rm/ > file.tmp

Best regards,
Paul


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