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Old 06-03-2009
using sed to replace a line is not working

This is what I have this far
Code:
rsh server1 "cat /home/test.txt |sed s/01-jun-2009/01-aug-2009/ |sed s/ABCD/1234/"

but it is not working is there something I am doing wrong in my syntax?
The file test.txt is the same on all of my 15 servers it has the same length and contents only certain parts of each line (5 total lines) is unique for the server, for a temporary fix we made one line the same for all 15 servers until we got something more permanent. Now that we have a permanent fix I need to change 5 parts of that single line to make it different from the other servers.

any help would be great thanks
# 2  
Old 06-03-2009
rsh server1 cat /home/test.txt |sed s/01-jun-2009/01-aug-2009/ |sed s/ABCD/1234/

this will work... just remove the <" ">

More over if you want to replace data more then one place in the file then, use 'g' with sed...
Smilie
# 3  
Old 06-05-2009
oh ok thanks I will give that a try
# 4  
Old 06-06-2009
Code:
rsh server1 "sed -e 's/01-jun-2009/01-aug-2009/g' -e sed 's/ABCD/1234/g' /home/test.txt > /tmp/temp.txt;mv /tmp/temp.txt /home/test.txt"


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