> I knew this command awhile ago. But the damned spiders
> that eat away at my brain have stolen the infomation again.
>
> in file "myfile"
> I want to replace all the occurances of string "bob" with
> string "tom"
>
> I thought there was an easy command for this
> but i cant seem to find it in the little
> books on my table
> I need bigger books
Ok, you got me, I was on my way out the door ,but:
sed -e 's/bob/tom/g' -o myfile myfile
if your sed complains about -o, use
sed -e 's/bob/tom/g' myfile > myfile.t
mv myfile.t myfile
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