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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed: replace string with another string (with spaces) Post 302333644 by zmfcat1 on Monday 13th of July 2009 05:23:37 PM
Old 07-13-2009
sed: replace string with another string (with spaces)

Hi
I have an XML file with strings XABCD, XEFGHX and XIJKLX. I would like to replace XABCDX with "This is the first string", XEFGHX with "This is the second string" and XIJKLX with "This is the third string".

What is the best way to implement this? Should I have a file with the data that is read by a script which uses sed commands or can this be within the script itself? Assuming that I have x number of strings like the above. an example will be helpful. Thx.
 

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