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exactly what i was looking for, thank you

sweet, thank you I got it to work. Is there an easier way to do this, I have more than one file?

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like...

I posted this issue a week or so ago and I still cant get the script to work. Here is what I have so far and what Im trying to do.

#!/bin/ksh

old="$1"
new="$2"
file=$3
grep $1 $3 > /dev/null...

i get

grep:be: no such file or directory

thank you,is this using sh shell?

I cant get it to work, I assume I am using the wrong shell?

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anyone...

Im working on a shell script that uses three parameters, a string to replace, the string replacing, and a file name.

In this script it makes a back up file before the replacement occurs. However...

thank you, but what if like the first script there is more than one file as a parameter, say three or four files to change strings in.

quotations worked, thank you

any idea how to apply this to any number of file?

I am trying to take the two line version of this:

mv myFile.txt myFile.txt.bak
sed 's/foo/bar/g' myFile.txt.bak > myFile.txt

and make it into a shell script with three parameters. First two...

thanks for the help guys :)

Is it possible to count the number of users? or specifically emac users?

I know that you can count certain file sizes, like
find /usr/bin/ -size 11k -exec ls {} \;|wc -1

but how would I count...

find ~/UnixCourse -name *.txt -print | head --lines=[-]1



hmm still not working, I am having trouble using the head line

also what exactly does $VAR do?

Oh I wasnt expecting a full answer

robsonde you have been a great help, I am going to try your advice out and Ill post an update of how far I get

find ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst/*.txt

like that find all the txt documents

well we are currently working on redirection and pipelines, do I need to use a wildcard to search for the .txt documents?

I have been working on this for the past hour and I can not figure it out :(

What command would you give to produce a listing of the names of all the text files in ~/UnixCourse or its...