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Subject: Re: is there a "replace command" ? 
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 07:43:44 -0500
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sed -e 's/touch/rm/' FILENAME > OUTPUT_FILE

or something like,

perl -pi -e 's/touch/rm/;' FILENAME

man 1 sed for a lot more detail

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malik Bülent" <bmalik@ihlas.net.tr>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:18 AM
Subject: is there a "replace command" ?


> 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 ?
>
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