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sed character replace over a range
Name: Rags Date: December 23, 2004 at 05:30:30 Pacific OS: Unix CPU/Ram: 128
Comment:
Hi
I need a sed command to replace all characters in a text file except those in a specific range.
i.e
If there is a file with contents:
abcdefghijk
what do i do to replace all characters except those from 3 to 5 with x
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