What command is used to replace the existing string with
some other?

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What command is used to replace the existing string with some other?..

Answer / thangaraju

sed 's/existingstring/newstring/g' filename or Specfied
row means sed '1,10s/existingstring/newstring/g' filename

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What command is used to replace the existing string with some other?..

Answer / jaga

:%s/string/String1/g

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What command is used to replace the existing string with some other?..

Answer / suresh mishra

sed 's/existing_pattern/new_pattern/g' file_name :- It replaces "existing_pattern" with "new_pattern" GLOBALLY.If you are not providing 'g' at the end, it will only replace the first occurrence of the matching pattern.

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What command is used to replace the existing string with some other?..

Answer / vishu146

:1,$s/string/string1/gc

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What command is used to replace the existing string with some other?..

Answer / angel

sed command

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What command is used to replace the existing string with some other?..

Answer / amit kumar

sed 's/existing_word/new_word/g' file1.txt.It replaces the
all the existing word with new word wherever it occurs in
file1.g stands for global.

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What command is used to replace the existing string with some other?..

Answer / drishya

:g/existing word/s//new word

this s can be used while using C in linux...

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What command is used to replace the existing string with some other?..

Answer / pavankumar

sed 's/word1/word2/g' file

it replaces all occurences of word1 with word2 in file.

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