Looking for quick way of editing a text file
Gilboa Davara
gilboada at netvision.net.il
Sun Nov 20 13:42:13 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 13:36 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
>
> Is there some quick way of editing a specific line of a text file
> without using a text editor?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
Try tr(1), sed(1) and awk(1).
To replace a single line (or part of it):
cat file.txt | sed 's/old_line/new_line/g' > newfile.txt
Gilboa
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