How to search and replace a text using grep

DediPlace · 05-29-2005, 06:38 PM

Hi,

I can't remember, I know I can search a string from all the files in one directory and replace the string also using grep...

What is the command again?

I want to change the occurance of text "ns1" to "ns".

Thanks

Tinkster · 05-29-2005, 06:40 PM

You can't ... grep only greps, no replacements.

sed is what you're after

sed -i 's/ns1/ns/g' file

Cheers,
Tink

DediPlace · 05-29-2005, 06:47 PM

Thanks very much! It works perfectly.

Regards,