08-11-2013
bioinfo, don't put my code in a file. Simply run it in a terminal as I posted it, replacing a.doc and b.txt for the filenames you have (in case they differ from those two).
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-i, --ignore-case
Ignore the case of old_string.
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-q, --quiet
Quiet mode.
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Verbose mode.
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Simulation mode, no files are changed.
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