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Old 09-17-2008
Replacement of string

Hi

I have a text file which contains the following.

AAA,BBB,CCC,DDD
AAA,BBB,CCC,DDD
AAA,BBB,CCC,DDD

How can I replace all CCC with 888, with other contents inside the file remain unchange? Please advice

Desired output:
AAA,BBB,888,DDD
AAA,BBB,888,DDD
AAA,BBB,888,DDD
# 2  
Old 09-17-2008
Code:
sed -e 's/CCC/888/' originalFile.txt > fileWithNewRecords.txt

Then 'cat' the file fileWithNewRecords.txt
There are number of ways to do that, in many different languages.
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