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

  
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Submitted by: shiv
 
sed 's/n/xyz/g' filename > new_filename

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June 03, 2005 08:01:17   #1  
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   #2  
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   #3  
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   #4  
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   #5  
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   #6  
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   #7  
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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