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How do I substitute a word throughout a file? For example change all instances of the word John to Mark. This would be in vi for korn shell.
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:1,$s/WORD_TO_REPLACE/WORD_TO_SUBSTITUTE/g
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:g /John/s//Mark/g


OR From outside the file...

# cat file.in | sed 's/John/Mark/g' > file.out
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# cat file.in | sed 's/John/Mark/g' > file.out
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sed 's/John/Mark/g' file.in > file.out
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yea, I was just showing all known uses....

grep <pattern> file.in | sed 's/John/Mark/g' > file.out
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yea, I was just showing all known uses....

grep <pattern> file.in | sed 's/John/Mark/g' > file.out

That will filter out other lines in file.in ; Right ??
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