Very nice, simple code Benjamin. Just the way I like it!
Trev.
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From: Benjamin Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:26 PM
To: Trevor Ouellette
Cc: e-smith-devinfo
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] procmail help
I would use Perl.
perl -pi -e 's|\Qkey phrase\E|new sentence|gi;' <file>
This is perl at its simplest (equivalent to a hello world program!) so
I point you to http://www.google.com/.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:11:40PM -0600, Trevor Ouellette wrote:
> Quick question...
>
> I want to write a bash script that can modify a file. I want to be able
to
> search through a file until it reaches a key phrase or words. Then I want
> to delete the whole line or replace the key phrase.
>
> If anyone has the time, please point me in the right direction. I've
> already looked at grep and egrep but I don't know how to pipe (|) a lot of
> the commands in the correct order.
>
> It's for my samba 2.2.1a upgrade script based on Dan Browns howto!
>
> Trev.
>
>
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