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to change contents of a file and save using sed/awk [message #98074]

Tue, 20 January 2004 23:53

etryblr
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Registered: December 2003

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1.How do I change the contents of a file and save it in the same file, using awk/sed?

2.How do I replace exact matches in a unix file , globally?
ex: if a file has abc and abchjkhkj, i want to replace just abc(first string)

thnks in adv
Prashanth

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Re: to change contents of a file and save using sed/awk [message #98076 is a reply to message #98074]

Wed, 21 January 2004 08:15

andrew again
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See http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?s=998010f6a1d7a79264dd2d75e46a8df6&threadid=1505&highlight=find+name+grep

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