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From: Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com>
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To: =?iso-8859-9?Q?Malik_B=FClent?= <bmalik@ihlas.net.tr>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: is there a "replace command" ? 
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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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