Need help to use regex to do search and replace. Don't know how to and can't figure out how :(
Hi,
Below is an excerpt from a 20000+ lines and I want to do a search and replace of a specific string but I don't know how and I can't figure out how to. Can't find an example from Google or anywhere to do what I am wanting to do.
I need to search for all lines that contain the string /db/LTS/abcp_ but only those that ends in .dbf. So from the excerpts above, it should find the line below:
And I want to replace them so it so that it will be
So, basically I need to change /db/LTS/abcp_ to /db/LTS/abct_. It is the one in BOLD that I am wanting to search and replace.
The grep regex below seems to do what I wanted. But I don't know how to do like a sed search and replace thing
Any help will be much appreciated.
P.S.:
- Is there any way to colorize or highlight certain text? I was hoping to be able to do that in this post but can't find the option to do so. I thought that option was available on the older forum ???
Thanks for giving your time and effort to answer questions and helping newbies like me understand awk.
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