Re: Find and Replace in a IFS File

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

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
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