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From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
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Subject: Re: is there a "replace command" ?
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# neuhauser@bellavista.cz / 2002-12-02 16:53:01 +0100:
> # tdv94ped@cs.umu.se / 2002-12-02 16:36:21 +0100:
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] 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 ?
> > 
> > Unfortunately I deleted your other mail, asking how to remove lines
> > containing some text in a file, but this might be one of many
> > solutions:
> > 
> > # perl -e 'open(FD,"<file"); while(<FD>) { if(!($_ =~ /texttolookfor/)) { print "$_"; }} close(FD);' > file.tmp
> > 
> > This has not been tested, so use it at your own risk. :-)
> 
>     how about this? even tested :)
> 
>     sed -i'' '/pattern/d' file

    gee, there must be whitespace betwwen -i and '' for this to work...

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