Re: replace string

Davide Brini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.sed.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:55:33 +0530, Lis Maria <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a file and in that a line as below
> 
> command:mkdir -type -type_tag -yes -noadmin
> 
> I want to replace with some other string.
> 
> How can i do this? tried couple of sed command. but not able to get
> through.

What about

sed 's/command:mkdir -type -type_tag -yes -noadmin/some other string/' file

or

sed '/command:mkdir -type -type_tag -yes -noadmin/ c\
some other string' file

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