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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace x Number of String Occurrence with Sed Post 302486819 by DGPickett on Monday 10th of January 2011 10:52:26 AM
Old 01-10-2011
If you could find the first line number to change, like 250 in this example, then it is not hard:
Code:
sed '250,$s/use five-minute-interval/use four-minute-interval/g' services.cfg

Same line works in vi with ':', ex, ed. Usually, you find the first line in vi and say ':.,$s . . . .'
 

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ttyload(1)							   User Commands							ttyload(1)

NAME
ttyload - Console based color-coded graphs of CPU load average SYNOPSIS
ttyload [options] OPTIONS
-h Show brief help. -v Show version information. -m Monochrome mode (no ANSI escapes). -c cols Specify how many columns wide is the screen. -r rows Specify how many rows high is the screen. These two options override the default behavior of auto-determining screen size. -i secs Alter the number of seconds in the interval between refreshes. The default is 4, and the minimum is 1, which is silently clamped. None. DESCRIPTION
Display fairly standard, but hard-coded, ANSI ASCII escape sequences for screen manipulation and colorization for different graphs: 1 minute, 5 minute, 15 minute load averages. Use C-c to quit. ENVIRONMENT
None. FILES
None. SEE ALSO
htop(1) iotop(1) top(1) vmstat(8) AUTHORS
ttyload was written by David Lindes <src/ttyload@daveltd.com>. This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). xReleased under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>. ttyload 2012-05-03 ttyload(1)
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