Looking for quick way of editing a text file

[Jim Cornette]

Gilboa Davara wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 10:18 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>Gilboa Davara wrote:
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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.
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>>Jim
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>The OP said:
>"Is there some quick way of editing a specific line of a text file **without** using a text editor?"
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>I believe nano qualifies as a text editor, am I wrong? ;)
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You're right! I believe both the subject and message body were 
addressed. :-)

Jim

>Gilboa
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