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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using grep output as input for sed command Post 302411001 by Amey Joshi on Wednesday 7th of April 2010 10:38:39 AM
Old 04-07-2010
Hi,

The below command is working for Korn shell:

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grep "AAA" file1.txt | sed 's/A/Z/g' > output.txt
Following is the output of the command:

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$ cat file1.txt
AAA
BBB
CCC
DD
EE
$ grep "AAA" file1.txt | sed 's/A/Z/g' > output.txt
$ cat output.txt
ZZZ
Hope this will help you. Smilie
Thanks!
 

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