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Old 09-04-2010
replacing multiple word in unix
Dear all,

I am new to unix and i have some problem over here
Is there any way to replace few words in a text file using sed command?

Let say i want to replace "I into He" "love into hate" and "you into her"

I was trying this out but it does not seems to work

Code:
sed { 's/I/He/g' ; 's/love/hate/g' ; 's/you/her' }

any comment?

thank you so much in advance
Last edited by Scott; 09-04-2010 at 11:35 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 09-04-2010
try like
Code:
sed 's/I/He/g;s/love/hate/g;s/you/her/' infile

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Old 09-04-2010
Wow. that's wonderful. it works great for me. thank you so much ygemici
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Old 09-04-2010
use brackets for group commands in this case unnecessary Smilie
this with brackets however too Smilie
Code:
# sed -e {'s/I/He/g' -e 's/love/hate/g' -e 's/you/her/'} infile

regards
ygemici
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