Re: filtering a text file

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From: Volker Herminghaus-Shirai
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 10:29

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In article <BsFuBt.D8I@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Melman@uiuc.edu (Melvin Wilson)  
writes:
> Hello,
> 
> Help!
> 
> I have a very simple (and for the more experienced, stupid) question.
> 
> From the command prompt on a NeXT how could I search a text file and remove  
> every instance of a particular expression in that text file?  I've tried but  
I  
> cannot figure out the apropriate format of the command.

type
	<inputfile >outputfile sed 's/old/new/g'
replacing inputfile and outputfile with their respective values.
The expression "old" will be replaced by "new". If old or new contain
any / characters, use a different character in the sed expression instead, like
	sed 's:old:new:g'

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@darkcube.radig.de)

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