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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace a word in a string starting with another word Post 302541855 by yazu on Tuesday 26th of July 2011 02:59:26 AM
Old 07-26-2011
Give a real example of your input/output. sed 's/good/bad/' works fine with your current one.
 

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CONNECTAGRAM(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   CONNECTAGRAM(1)

NAME
connectagram - word unscrambling game DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the Debian package connectagram . Connectagram is a word unscrambling game. The board consists of several scram- bled words that are joined together. You can choose the length of the words, the amount of words, and the pattern that the words are arranged in. The game provides a hint option for times when you are stuck, and features an online word lookup that fetches the definitions of each word from www.dict.org. Your current progress is automaticalla saved. Note that this game involves a large and varied word list, some of which may be considered inappropriate for children. You can edit the file containing the word list if you wish to remove words from your game. The location of this file varies by platform. CONFIGURATION
Connectionagram uses the configuration file ~/.config/GottCode/Connectagram.conf . It supports the following options. Each line must be in the format 'option = value'. Count the number of words Length the length of each word FILES
~/.config/GottCode/Connectagram.conf Configuration file with default options. AUTHORS
connectagram was written by Graeme Gott <graeme@gottcode.org> This manual page was written by Tang Ke <tangk@lemote.com>, for the Debian project. May 2010 CONNECTAGRAM(1)
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