Re: Edit file

Rob, 2002-01-11 15:07:14, du schriebst: > I would like to make a script that can change a line in a file.. commenting > out a line in a java source file to be precise. [...] > I tried using sed with this line: Hey, we have perl for cygwin! Perl offers much more than sed does:-) perl -i.bak -

RE: Edit file

This is rather off topic since it's not a cygwin problem, IMO, but I'll help you anyway because I'm nice like that :P What you probably want is: bash$ cat visualiser/PositionData.java | sed "s!import visualiser.HostIDVPatcher;!//import visualiser.HostIDVPatcher;!" > out.txt I've used ! instead