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Name: ronaldfinkbine
Date: July 28, 2005 at 07:56:06 Pacific
Subject: dumb sed question
OS: XP; linx
CPU/Ram: varies

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I am using sed to replace a string in a file with a file. From looking at the sed help docs on the www this should work
sed "s/XXX/r quote/" <infile >outfile
but obviously, it does not.
I am using sed in a DOS window on XP, but this is such an old tool it should work the same everywhere.
confused, I am
Ron
ronaldfinkbine@hotmail.com

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Response Number 1

Name: Jim Boothe
Date: July 28, 2005 at 12:07:26 Pacific
Subject: dumb sed question

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That command will read each line of infile, will print each line (modified or not) to stdout, and the stdout is being redirected to a file named outfile.
Regarding the string replacement, the first XXX found on a line would be changed to "r quote". On that same line, subsequent occurrences of XXX would not be changed (the /g flag would cause all occurrences to be changed).

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