Absolutely, but in the interests of a linear explanation I chose to kill a cat.
BTW I'm more of a dog person. Barry - Volker's example does exactly the same as my previous one, but saves some typing at the expense of linear readability. -----Original Message----- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2006 9:14 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Replacing text > cat filename | sed s/string 1/string 2/g > filename2 Let's be geeks. Let's be lazy: sed s/string 1/string 2/g < filename > filename2 Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
