Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 10:18 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
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
--
The OP said:
"Is there some quick way of editing a specific line of a text file **without** using a text editor?"
I believe nano qualifies as a text editor, am I wrong? ;)
You're right! I believe both the subject and message body were
addressed. :-)
Jim
Gilboa
--
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at
least until we've finished building it.
