Oh Thank you very much.
        I've got a solution here but it only works with Linux.  Your
solution is perfect to me since it works on Irix/SGI too.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi List, I swear I tried, but how can I make a whole line substitution
> > using 'sed'? I mean I have a 'word', then I want to find the 'line' where
> > 'word' is and so change this whole 'line' by a 'phrase'.  All that I got
> > with 'sed' by now is change 'word' by another 'word'.
> >
> > I'd appreciate very much any attention.
> >
> Try something like:
>   sed -e 's/^.*line.*$/new_text/' filename
>
>
>
>
>

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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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 Laboratório de Física Biológica
  Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
   Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
    Rio de Janeiro, Brasil


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