Replacing a word with a number

secondchanti · 08-06-2010, 11:30 AM

Dear friends,

I WANT TO REPLACE A PARTICULAR WORD WITH A SPECIFIC NO.

EXAMPLE : I WANT TO REPLACE THE WORD IN A TEXT FILE say
yes/no with 999

( in my lengthy input file iam having around 4500 such words, yes/no. i want to repalce all the 4500 at a time)

pl guide me which command i can used.
Rao

rikijpn · 08-06-2010, 11:47 AM

sed or any decent editor (vi/emacs/ed, etc).
You did search the web first right...

Code:

sed -i 's/word_to_replace/for_this_word/g' somefile

the "-i" is for save changes.

And you don't need to put your question in capital letters...