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From: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: global replacements with sed
Message-ID: <265@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 12 Aug 89 03:29:57 GMT
References: <49@docwrk.UUCP> <7630@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause)
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Customer Services Support Team, Columbia, SC
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In article <7630@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <49@docwrk.UUCP> srh@docwrk.UUCP (Steven R. Houser) writes:
>> I'm trying to use the sed editor to make global relacements, but I'm not
>> having much luck.  I tried RTFM, but it doesn't give an example of what the
>> script file should look like.  What I'm trying to do is replace occurrences 
>> of ^L with .bp macros.
>> 
>> When I use the a script file containing:
>sed -e '/^L/s//.bp/' should work, assuming it's a real control/l and not
>some kind of caret followed by an L.

How about:  $ sed "s/^L/.bp/g" filename......


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