04-03-2009
sed find and replace multiple lines
I am new to linux and would like to modify the contents of a file preferably using a one line. The situation is as follows
<start>
some lines
"I am the string"
"replace string"
more lines here
<end>
In the above example,On encountering "I am the string", the "replace string "should be modified to say "string replaced"
i tried doing the following
sed -e 's/"I am the string"\n"replace string"/"I am the string"\n"string replaced"' myfile.txt
Also how do I make the modifications reflect in the file. its only diplaying at the terminal
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NAME
replace - a string-replacement utility
SYNOPSIS
replace arguments
DESCRIPTION
The replace utility program changes strings in place in files or on the standard input.
Invoke replace in one of the following ways:
shell> replace from to [from to] ... -- file_name [file_name] ...
shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file_name
from represents a string to look for and to represents its replacement. There can be one or more pairs of strings.
Use the -- option to indicate where the string-replacement list ends and the file names begin. In this case, any file named on the command
line is modified in place, so you may want to make a copy of the original before converting it. replace prints a message indicating which
of the input files it actually modifies.
If the -- option is not given, replace reads the standard input and writes to the standard output.
replace uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. It can be used to swap strings. For example, the following command swaps
a and b in the given files, file1 and file2:
shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...
The replace program is used by msql2mysql. See msql2mysql(1).
replace supports the following options.
o -?, -I
Display a help message and exit.
o -#debug_options
Enable debugging.
o -s
Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.
o -v
Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
o -V
Display version information and exit.
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