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Old 08-20-2008
wip_vasikaran wip_vasikaran is offline
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how to use sed or perl command to find and replace a directory in a file
how to use sed command to find and replace a directory



i have a file.. which contains lot of paths ...

for eg.. file contains..

/usr/kk/rr/12345/1
/usr/kk/rr/12345/2
/usr/kk/rr/12345/3
/usr/kk/rr/12345/4
/usr/kk/rr/12345/5
/usr/kk/rr/12345/6
/usr/kk/rr/12345/7
/usr/kk/rr/12345/8

i want to replace /usr/kk/rr/12345/ with /usr/kk/yy/12555/

pls help