Archive for October, 2007

HOWTO replace strings in files with Linux

So, you want an easy to to replace text in files, even multiple files, on a linux machine, from the command line. How? – You ask? Easy. Let me show you. Let’s say you want to replace all instances of “John” with “Pete” in a file, called resume.txt In a bash shell, run the following: [...]

Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 17:46 2 comments