Looking for quick way of editing a text file

[Jim Cornette]

Gilboa Davara wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 13:36 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
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>>Dear All
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>>Is there some quick way of editing a specific line of a text file
>>without using a text editor?
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>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Paul
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>Try tr(1), sed(1) and awk(1).
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>To replace a single line (or part of it):
>cat file.txt | sed 's/old_line/new_line/g' > newfile.txt
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>Gilboa
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nano is an easy and quick editor. The commands are simple, ^o to write 
out and ^x to quit. The program is installed by default.

Jim

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