Re: Looking for quick way of editing a text file

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On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 13:36 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> Is there some quick way of editing a specific line of a text file
> without using a text editor?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 

Try tr(1), sed(1) and awk(1).

To replace a single line (or part of it):
cat file.txt | sed 's/old_line/new_line/g' > newfile.txt

Gilboa


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