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Originally posted by Mekanik
sed on sf.net

sed - one liners

here's some good info on SED and some nice one-liners....

-mekanik

Originally posted by Geeshock
sed came in handy fot me a cupple of times, like when I had to replace an ip in like 80 files It saved me much time

Originally posted by Mekanik

[quote=geeshock]sed came in handy fot me a cupple of times, like when I had to replace an ip in like 80 files It saved me much time[/quote]

you can also use a cool perl one-liner to do that also.

this will make a backup of <filename> to <filename~> and then replace the first instance found on each line:


this will make a backup of <filename> to <filename~> and then replace all instances found on each line:


-mekanik