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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 17:51:22 -0500
From: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>
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Hi:

 Sed is useful for this. Here are some good tutorials on it:

Common threads: Sed by example:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed1.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed2.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed3.html


On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 17:08:07 -0500, Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> wrote:
> If I wanted to replace every instance of a pattern in a file with
> something, what would I use?
>