01-30-2009
More thoughts please
I have now - the response was
sed: 0602-404 Function 3creplacement txt cannot be parsed.
I put your script
>sed 3c"replacement txt" filename.txt
directly into the command line
Is there another alternative?
Regards,
Susan
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NAME
rpl -- replace strings in files
SYNOPSIS
rpl [-LhiwbqvsRepfdt] [-xSUFFIX] <old_string> <new_string> <target_file ...>
DESCRIPTION
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-h, --help
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-L, --license
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imal number 42), '