From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 11:57:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA03736 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:57:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ptw.com (root@mail.ptw.com [207.104.240.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA03731 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:57:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.com (ak-2-12.ptw.com [207.212.187.76]) by mail.ptw.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA02307 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:56:10 -0800 Message-Id: <199701141956.LAA02307@mail.ptw.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Jesse" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 07:20:18 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Search and Replace? Reply-to: bextreme@POBox.com X-Confirm-Reading-To: bextreme@pobox.com X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, sorry if this is not the correct list to give this to, but I don't know of anywhere else to ask. I have a file that I need to replace a instance of a word with a variable (for instance with the variable of the current IP address) automatically. I would appreciate any help possible... Thanks!! -J =================================================== Finger bextreme@pobox.com for PGP Public Key Block. E-mail to jesse.brown@pobox.com phone: (805) 942-1391 pager: (805) 267-9511 --------------------------------------------------- Member of the HTML Writers Guild (http://hwg.org) ===================================================