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A tiny script to replace all occurrences of a string in a file with another string

Posted on March 29, 2018 by SoCRaT

sed -i ‘s/original/new/g’ filename.txt This basically replaces every occurrence of the “original” string with the “new” string in the file named “filename.txt” e.g. sed -i ‘s/192.168.0.1/192.168.1.1/g’ /etc/fstab Will replace all occurrences of the IP “192.168.0.1” with the IP “192.168.1.1” in … Continue reading →

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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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How to extract a number from a string (not a file) in Bash

Posted on April 10, 2013 by SoCRaT

export hobba=ksjdjf123ksks export nokka=`sed “s/[^0-9]//g” <<< $hobba` echo $nokka 123 Sources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13055889/sed-with-a-literal-string-not-input-file, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6388046/extract-integer-from-string-using-bash

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