Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:34:41 +0100 (CET) From: Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> To: =?iso-8859-9?Q?Malik_B=FClent?= <bmalik@ihlas.net.tr> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there a "replace command" ? Message-ID: <20021202132745.G19865-100000@slave.east.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <012401c299fc$ed221f80$dc96eed5@ymmaslak>
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Today Malik Bülent wrote:
> On Freebsd4.x
> I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones
> For example a file
> touch /var/qmail/1
> touch /var/qmail/2
> touch /var/qmail/3
> touch /var/qmail/4
> touch /var/qmail/5
> touch /var/qmail/6
> I want to change "touch" with "rm"
> How can i replace a newones in stead of a lot of expressions in a file on
> FreeBSD ?
> Which command(s) do i have to use ?
>
1) sed -e 's,^touch,rm,g' < infile > outfile
2) while read a b; do echo "rm $b"; done < infile > outfile
3) awk '{print "rm "$2}' < infile > outfile
-andrew
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