Re: find and replace

Subject: Re: find and replace
From: Peter Q. Olsson (olsson@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 16:02:04 AKDT

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>
>Upgrading to mhonarc 2.5.8 didn't help.
>
>Whats an easy of doing a find and replace on text in a file?
>
>"r J" to "r J"?
>

perl -i~ -pe "s/r J/r J/g" in_file

replaces the string globally in a modified "in_file", with the old version saved
in "in_file~"

YOu can do it similarly w/ sed, but I am more up on my perl.

PQO

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