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hi all, i am trying small shell script, i need to replace string "/usr/local" with "/root", this pattern may occurs more then one and i need to replace all, i ...
  1. 03-27-2009 #1
    ykc#
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    string replacement,

    hi all,

    i am trying small shell script, i need to replace string "/usr/local" with "/root", this pattern may occurs more then one and i need to replace all,

    i am unable to do it using 'sed'

    please help me..

    thank u
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    Have you tried using perl ?

    Code:
    perl -pe "s/\/usr\/local/\/root/g" <file>
    Will dump <file> to stdout with any changes the regex makes

    Code:
    perl -i -pe "s/\/usr\/local/\/root/g" <file>
    Will make the changes directly in <file>
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  3. 03-27-2009 #3
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    matonb thank you, i tried second one that is working fine, thanks agian
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  4. 03-27-2009 #4
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    No problem
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