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Old 02-25-2011
Data sed command
Hi.....
I'm using sed command for replace the words in a file
cat >test.txt
My test.txt contains
Code:
Mary had a little ham
Mary fried a lot of spam
Jack ate a Spam sandwich
Jill had a lamb spamwich
Marry had a spicy wich

Code:
$ sed 's/wich$/mirchi/g' test.txt

output is:
Code:
Mary had a little ham
Mary fried a lot of spam
Jack ate a Spam sandmirchi
Jill had a lamb spammirchi
Marry had a spicy mirchi

But I dont want to change combination of wich (i.e., sandwich & spamwich should not change)
plz give me correct command.......if any command other than sed plz send me...I'm waiting for ur reply




Last edited by Franklin52; 02-26-2011 at 07:57 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 02-25-2011
Code:
sed 's/ wich$/ mirchi/' test.txt

# 3  
Old 02-26-2011
Code:
$ cat file
Mary had a little ham
Mary fried a lot of spam
Jack ate a Spam sandwich
Jill had a lamb spamwich
wich Marry had a spicy wich

$ ruby -ne 'print $_.gsub(/\bwich\b/,"mirchi") ' file
Mary had a little ham
Mary fried a lot of spam
Jack ate a Spam sandwich
Jill had a lamb spamwich
mirchi Marry had a spicy mirchi

Last edited by kurumi; 02-28-2011 at 04:25 AM..
# 4  
Old 02-28-2011
No yar any of command what u sent it those are not working plz help me out.
# 5  
Old 02-28-2011
sed command
a small modification to bartus11's solution ::

Quote:
sed 's/ wich/ mirchi/g' File.txt
# 6  
Old 02-28-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheel
a small modification to bartus11's solution ::
that won't work if wich is in front
Code:
wich Marry had a spicy wich

# 7  
Old 02-28-2011
sed command
oops i missed a test case :P.

Can we try using -e to append multiple commands.

Quote:

sed -e 's/wich /mirchi /g' -e 's/ wich/ mirchi/g' File.txt
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