Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 06:41:29 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> 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: <XFMail.20021202064129.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <012401c299fc$ed221f80$dc96eed5@ymmaslak>
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On 02-Dec-2002 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 ? Recent versions of FreeBSD now have a version of 'sed' that can do these types of replacements "in place", i.e., without the need for a temporary file: sed -i -e 's/^touch /rm /' infile That were a easy one. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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