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How would you replace the n character in a file with some xyz?

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Last Update: December 14, 2009

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Submitted by: shiv

sed 's/n/xyz/g' filename > new_filename

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jrgalaura

June 03, 2005 08:01:17

shiv

RE: How would you replace the n character in a file with some xyz?

sed 's/n/xyz/g' filename > new_filename

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February 15, 2006 06:32:22

sriku_u

Member Since: October 2005 Contribution: 1

RE: How would you replace the n character in a file wi...

vi file name

then go to command mode

s/n/xyz/g

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July 10, 2006 11:00:48

Madhukrishnan

RE: How would you replace the n character in a file wi...

tail -1 sample.txt | sed 's/.$/xyz/'Check this

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August 13, 2007 09:36:59

Bala G

RE: How would you replace the n character in a file wi...

using perl we can do.

perl -p -i -e "s/n/abc/g" file_name

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November 07, 2007 04:42:58

Pradeep Singh

RE: How would you replace the n character in a file wi...

We can replace n characters by using the following command:
1 $s/./xyz/g
where 1 shows that the search string will start searching patterns from first line of the file.
'.' for any character.
g for global replacement.

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May 30, 2008 02:24:37

BUGME

Member Since: May 2008 Contribution: 1

RE: How would you replace the n character in a file with some xyz?

FOLLOWING IS THE ANSWER FOR REPLACING RANGE OF CHARACTERS IN A LINE OF FILE. HERE 5TH TO 10TH CHARACTERS IN THE FILE text.txt ARE REPLACED BY "XYZ"

cut -c5-10 text.txt | sed 's/^.*$/XYZ/g'

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June 04, 2008 15:05:12

Vivek12

Member Since: June 2008 Contribution: 3

RE: How would you replace the n character in a file with some xyz?

search for the character n in filename and replace it with xyz.
sed 's/n/xyz/g' filename

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December 14, 2009 15:39:54

sham2sushil

Member Since: December 2009 Contribution: 6

RE: How would you replace the n character in a file with some xyz?

sed -i 's/<Search_word>/<Replacing_word>/g' <filename>

sed -i option will directly changed in the fine. no need to redirect the output and create the another file. Here "g" for globe change.

Shambhu

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