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# 1  
Old 04-15-2012
Replacing a line in a file using sed
I have a file which has a list in it

pop
triangle
people
slow
fast

What I want to do is search this list and replace people with humans do the list looks like this:

pop
triangle
human
slow
fast

I think i use something like this....

Code:
if cat /list.txt | grep -q 'people' ; then
sed -i 'humans' /list.txt

Any help please...
# 2  
Old 04-15-2012
Code:
sed s:people:humans:g list.txt

# 3  
Old 04-15-2012
what if the the line was

<html><body><a href="http://www.test.com">test.com</a></body></html>

and I wanted to change it too


<html><body><a href="http://www.test1.com">New website is test1.com</a></body></html>
# 4  
Old 04-15-2012
Code:
sed -e 's:www.test.com:www.test1.com:g' -e 's:test.com:New website is test1.com:g' infile

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# 5  
Old 04-15-2012
Code:
sed -e 's:www.test.com:www.test1.com:g' -e 's:test.com:New website is test1.com:g' infile

Is that right surly it should be???? Will it still work? I changed s:test.com to s:test1.com and infile to list.txt

Code:
sed -e 's:www.test.com:www.test1.com:g' -e 's:test1.com:New website is test1.com:g' list.txt

# 6  
Old 04-15-2012
's:test1.com:New website is test1.com:g' will not give desired results, as you want to replace test.com with "New website is test1.com" whereas sed will be searcing for "test1.com" which doesn't exist

---------- Post updated at 07:34 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:31 AM ----------

play with following code, it will make working more clear to you:
Code:
echo "<html><body><a href="http://www.test.com">test.com</a></body></html>" |  sed -e 's:www.test.com:www.test1.com:g' -e 's:test.com:New website is test1.com:g'

# 7  
Old 04-15-2012
thanks that works great even with variable in!

Cheers
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