From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 07:21:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3617416A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from iwmail.xpdial.com (iwgate.xpdial.com [68.156.89.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FF143D4C for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:21:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@s-wit.net) Received: from [192.168.101.250] by iwmail.xpdial.com (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.4.1)); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:25:15 -0500 Message-ID: <003e01c3d531$fec960b0$fa65a8c0@ocfl061> From: "M.D. DeWar" To: References: <20040106075951.4910.qmail@www-01.iinet.net.au> <44hdz7rdwk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:21:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: mass word find/replace X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:21:32 -0000 I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh thanks Mark