Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:26:44 +0100 From: Bernard El-Hagin <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mass word find/replace Message-ID: <549ovv4aj4l3mglt7p08if23pousehjf1m@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <003e01c3d531$fec960b0$fa65a8c0@ocfl061> References: <20040106075951.4910.qmail@www-01.iinet.net.au> <44hdz7rdwk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <003e01c3d531$fec960b0$fa65a8c0@ocfl061>
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Mark wrote: >I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file >with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. > >I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh perl -i.bak -pe 's/pn_/nuke_/g' /input/file(s) The old file(s) will be saved with the extension .bak. --=20 Cheers, Bernard
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