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Old 01-05-2010
awk search and replace and overwrite file
hi,

i am doing

Code:
awk '{gsub("hello", "bye", $0); print}' test.dat

but I want to actually store the results of this global change into the file test.dat itself, i.e. I don't want the results to come to stdout, I want the results to overwrite the initial file

how can I do this?

thanks
# 2  
Old 01-05-2010
With AWK you'll need something like this:

Code:
awk '{gsub("hello", "bye")}1' test.dat > test.dat_tmp && 
  mv test.dat_tmp test.dat

or this (not recommended):

Code:
{ rm test.dat && 
    awk '{gsub("hello", "bye")}1' > test.dat
  } < test.dat

I would use Perl:

Code:
perl -i -pe's/hello/bye/g' test.dat

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# 3  
Old 01-05-2010
Or if your sed version supports the -i (inplace) option (check your manpage):
Code:
sed -i 's/hello/bye/g' test.dat

# 4  
Old 01-05-2010
brilliant, thanks
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