Re: Search and Replace
sed was made for that. there are lots of other tools
that are more programming-oriented (awk, perl, python...);
sed is simple and a bit cryptic but good to get to know.
John Greer wrote:
>
> I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a
> shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string
> (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is
> there a command or string of commands that I can do this in? If
> this is possible it will make my life much easier!! Thanks
>
> John
>
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