Replace word in file-mulitple times.

AlanL · 06-24-2007, 11:31 PM

I need to replace a word in a file 154 times.
What program and what command would I use?

Findus · 06-24-2007, 11:41 PM

Can you open the file in a text editor? If that is an option, you can use the "search and replace"-function, found under the Edit-menu. Most text editors have that function, so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

- Delphi

gilead · 06-24-2007, 11:57 PM

You can use sed for that. Does it have to be 154 times or was that a generalisation? If you want to replace every occurrence of the word dog with cat in the file test-data and put the results in a file called test-data.new, you can do this:

Code:

sed -e 's/dog/cat/g' test-data > test-data.new

It then becomes a process of checking the data. For example, the word Dog won't be changed because of the capital D. Have a look at the man page for sed or google for sed howto tutorial for more info.

got_nix · 06-25-2007, 12:03 AM

sounds like a good ole find and replace will fix his problem control + h n its easy street from there on out.

AlanL · 06-25-2007, 01:49 AM

Thanks gilead...that command worked OK.

Tinkster · 06-25-2007, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by got_nix

sounds like a good ole find and replace will fix his problem control + h n its easy street from there on out.

Which app is that with? :}

Cheers,
Tink