- Create a text file with some entries:
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$ echo "Hello reader, how are you ?. Hope reader is doing well." > test.txt
- View the contents of the file:
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$ cat test.txt
Hello reader, how are you ?. Hope reader is doing well.
- Test find and replace of only one occurance of word ‘reader’ with ‘rahul’
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$ sed 's/reader/rahul/' test.txt
Hello rahul, how are you ?. Hope reader is doing well.
- Test find and replace of all occurances of word ‘reader’ with ‘rahul’
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$ sed 's/reader/rahul/g' test.txt
Hello rahul, how are you ?. Hope rahul is doing well.
- Execute find and replace of all occurances of word ‘reader’ with ‘rahul’, with backup of original file
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$ sed -i.bck 's/reader/rahul/g' test.txt
- View the contents of the updated file:
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$ cat test.txt
Hello rahul, how are you ?. Hope rahul is doing well.
- View the contents of the backup file:
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$ cat test.txt.bck
Hello reader, how are you ?. Hope reader is doing well.