-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09-Aug-2002/09:53 -0700, David Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I second that one!!! It will help you in the long run with learning Regular >Expressions! > >but.... > >sed 's/hostname=Venus/hostname=Mar/' Foo
That will work on small files, but I don't recommend it. Make a habit of redirecting the output to a temp file, or 'less'. Otherwise the shell may open the file for output before it is completely read by awk. That will effectively truncate the input. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQE9VD7npCpg3WyUI50RAsvKAJ9UEkZu5OYMTStZqv1PXbjM3XJ0LwCghxfl kBWgDwQvcP1TycpPMUXgZzY= =9TKX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list