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Old 03-02-2011
Update strings in text file
I have a txt file that contains multiple occurrances of:

<MoreFlag>Y</MoreFlag>

I want to update these to:

MorePACFlag>Y</MorePACFlag>

How would I do this?


Cheers
Paul
# 2  
Old 03-02-2011
Code:
perl -i -pe 's/MoreFlag>/MorePACFlag>/g' input_file

# 3  
Old 03-02-2011
vim filename
Code:
vim ***
:%s/MoreFlag/MorePACFlag/g

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