Re: Find and Replace in a IFS File

sed 's/foo/bar/g'  - replaces ALL instances in a line

Don in DC



At 02:50 PM 3/8/2006 -0600, you wrote:

Don't you need a g at the end?  For example:

     sed 's/from/to/g' inputfile > outputfile

That's the way I've always done it -- I've always put a "g" after the
"tostring".

---
Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, James Rich wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Dave McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Probably, and you could use "sed" in QSHELL, too.
>
> Yup, and here is how:
>
> sed s/texttoreplace/replacementtext/ inputfile > outputfile
>
> So if your input file is called input.txt and you want to relace all
> occurrances of the string TESTSTRING with STRINGTEST and you want the
> output to be in a file called output.txt you would do this:
>
> sed s/TESTSTRING/STRINGTEST/ input.txt > output.txt
>
> James Rich
--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.