On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:15:36PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > What command line utilities can I use to replace text within a file > ie. replace linux with GNU/Linux within a file. I do not want to > create a new file.
Both Perl and GNU sed >3.95 support in-place editing with the '-i'
parameter.
$ sed -ie 's/linux/GNU\/Linux/g' file_to_edit
$ perl -pi -e 's{linux}{GNU/Linux}g' file_to_edit
Cheers,
-mjg
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