Replacing a string with another in a text file using sed

Posted on August 27, 2013 by SoCRaT

sed -i ‘s/old-test/new-text/g’ filename

This replaces the word old-test with the word new-text in the file named filename.

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Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek
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