Tag: replace

Replace one string by another in all file found by find. find . -name *whatyouwant* -exec perl -pi.bak -e ‘s/TEXT_TO_REPLACE/TEXT_TO_REPLACE_IT_WITH/g’…

This command takes an input file and substitutes strings inside it with the parameters passed, similar to substituting for variables….

Change all occurrences of ‘one’ to ‘two’ in the file.txt file in the grep example, enter this: sed ‘s/one/two/g’ file.txt

The command to convert all \n in a file to another string – very useful for list code generation. perl…

Replaces all instance of ‘<old string>’ with ‘<new sting>’ in all the files of the current directory. perl -pi -e…

This will join all lines of a file together. Sometimes I have a list of something in a file, one…