Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:56:40 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: Malik =?iso-8859-2?Q?B=FClent?= <bmalik@ihlas.net.tr>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a "replace command" ? Message-ID: <20021202155640.GC56031@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20021202155301.GB56031@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <012401c299fc$ed221f80$dc96eed5@ymmaslak> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212021632090.4600-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se> <20021202155301.GB56031@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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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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