Ronald Pringadi's Technical Notes

Search and replace withing a file

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sed -i -e"s/SEARCH_TEXT/REPPLACE_TEXT/g" FILENAME.txt

# another example using bakup
sed -i.bak -e"s/SEARCH_TEXT/REPPLACE_TEXT/g" FILENAME.txt

# another example using variable
sed -i -e"s/\/pathname/\/pathname-$date/g" "filename-"$date".xml"

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