I don't believe that you can't substitute with grep or find. Do you have access to sed?
sed -e 's/abdfgg/opsmsdd/g' filename > outputfilename If you have multiple files with text you wish to replace, then you could use 'grep -R' to find them and if you're replacing with the same text in each file, then you could use the sed command in a loop and replace everything. sed is your friend. Hope this helps, Andy. -----Original Message----- From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to substutue string in a text file how to substutue string in a text file by using "gerp" or "find"? I have a text file, lof of "abdfggg" in that text file, i need to change it to "opsmsdd", is there a simple way to do that? Thanks -------------------------------- Jianping Zhu Department of Computer Science Univerity of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Tel 706 5423900 -------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
