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
