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01-17-2008

melanie_pfefer melanie_pfefer is offline

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replace a string

hello

I have a file where an entry needs to be modified. an example of this entry is:

install_location=/xena/sybase/ase12_5

I need to replace xena with another hostname (`hostname` output) for example:

install_location=/dx1/sybase/ase12_5

how to do that?

thanks

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