Gilboa Davara wrote:
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
nano is an easy and quick editor. The commands are simple, ^o to write
out and ^x to quit. The program is installed by default.
Jim
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