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Jul 27, 2003, 2:31 PM
pcmike
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Hi... Can anyone tell me a short code to do the following :

Take a text file and look for a certain word and replace it with a different word and then save the text file, over writing the existing file.



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Jul 27, 2003, 9:56 PM
cornball
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Jul 27, 2003, 9:56 PM
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Hello PcMike,

Short code ?

perl -pi.bak -e s/oldtext/newtext/g file.txt [ case sensitive ]

will find "oldtext" and replace with "newtext"

perl -pi.bak -e s/oldtext/newtext/gi file.txt [ case insensitive ]

and both will also create file.txt.bak

thanks cornball