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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using the command SED Post 302588070 by jyang72211 on Friday 6th of January 2012 03:41:57 PM
Old 01-06-2012
Using the command SED

I am trying to use sed with substitute to replace a section of text in a fileA.

Question 1:
If I want to want replace the "search" string with "replace" string inside fileA. I understand that I can use
Code:
sed 's/search/replace' < fileA >fileB

I also tried to do <fileA >fileA, but it doesn't work. Why is that? I don't want an extra file, fileB.

Question 2:
My main question. Inside the comand sed 's/search/replace' < fileA >fileB, the string "search" and "replaced" are actually inside fileC and fileD. How do I write the command? Thanks!

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TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				      TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)

NAME
transmission-edit -- command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs SYNOPSIS
transmission-edit [-h] [-a url] [-d url] [-r search replace] torrentfile(s) DESCRIPTION
transmission-edit command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs OPTIONS
-h --help Show a short help page and exit. -a --add URL Add an announce URL to the torrent's announce-list if it's not already in the list -d --delete URL Remove an announce URL from the torrent's announce-list -r --replace search replace Substring search-and-replace inside a torrent's announce URLs. This can be used to change an announce URL when the tracker moves or your passcode changes. EXAMPLES
Update a tracker passcode in all your torrents: $ transmission-edit -r old-passcode new-passcode ~/.config/transmission/torrents/*.torrent AUTHORS
Jordan Lee SEE ALSO
transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1), transmission-show(1) http://www.transmissionbt.com/ BSD
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