find and replace command in one line using one command

vasikaran · #1 (**permalink**) 08-12-2005

Hi,

I have a entry in the file as

::BSNL GUJARAT::India::OUT::NAT::REWEL::POSTPAID::919426199995

if u see this, i have the delimiter as :: ,

all i want is to replace "::" as ":"

so how to do that..

pls help

thanks

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 08-12-2005

Code:

echo "::BSNL GUJARAT::India::OUT::NAT::REWEL::POSTPAID::919426199995" | sed -e 's#::#:#g'

Vino

reborg · #3 (**permalink**) 08-12-2005

Since you want to make this change ':' cannot be a legal character in the fields and so this will also work.

Code:

echo "::BSNL GUJARAT::India::OUT::NAT::REWEL::POSTPAID::919426199995" | tr -s ':'

Be aware that this change will damage your data if ':' is a legal value, for example in a date.

msubbums · #4 (**permalink**) 09-04-2007

by perl u can do the following

perl -pi -e 's/::/:/g' <filename>

This replaces ur '::' to ':' in the file directly.

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