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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed: replace string with another string (with spaces) Post 302333652 by TonyFullerMalv on Monday 13th of July 2009 05:45:29 PM
Old 07-13-2009
Code:
sed -e 's/XABCD/This is the first string/g' -e 's/XEFGHX/This is the second string/g' -e 's/XIJKLX//This is the third string/g' XMLFILE > XMLFILE.$$ && \
cp XMLFILE.$$ XMLFILE && \
rm XMLFILE.$$

would do the trick but would get cumbersome if you had say 99 different strings you wanted to substitute, I'm sure a scripting guru my come up with something more elegant!
 

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