On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 07:38:45PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Why doesn't this do what I think it should do, which is substritute
> "'get'" with "'post'":
>
> sed -e "s/\'get\'/\'post\'/" infile >outfile
It almost certainly does get some of them, but you need to put a
"g" option at the end, to make sure that it gets them all:
sed -e "s/\'get\'/\'post\'/g" infile >outfile
Without g it will only do one edit per line.
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