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Old 06-25-2008
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Regarding only changing the third line:

$ cat f
yy
yy
yy
yy
yy
$ sed '3s/yy/nn/' f
yy
yy
nn
yy
yy

Does this help?
Last edited by eBay; 06-25-2008 at 07:35 PM..