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Re: String Replacement
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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:36:05 -0800
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Michael Marxmeier wrote:

>>Does anyone know a quick way, with shell script to replace a given string
>>with another string in an ASCI or Bytestream file?
>>
>
> sed -e 's/old/new/g' in > out


Perl can do this kind of stuff in-place without creating a separate file; see
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlrun.html and look at the "-i" parameter.
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