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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Expanding variables with Ed Bash 3.2.33 Post 302339978 by de_la_espada on Saturday 1st of August 2009 10:18:10 AM
Old 08-01-2009
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply.
If anyone can think of any easy way to do what I want to do then let me know.
Curently traawling through the mountain of find and replace postings on the forum.

Simply open file, find Word in line then replace word1 with word2. Then write change to file.
Word is a unique field in file so will only exist on one line. Word1 will only be present once per line.

cheers

Nick

Code:
 sed -i "/$address/s/$pat1/$pat2/" accounts.txt

Where address finds you the line, then pat1 is replaced by pat2. Only occurs once per line.

Last edited by de_la_espada; 08-01-2009 at 12:19 PM.. Reason: Found Solution
 

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