On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:41:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: > I tried googling my answer, but my google-foo seems to be weak. > > I have a text file which may or may not have several similar lines, like > so: > > The lazy dog ate my lunch. > The dog ate my lunch. > The lazy dog slept all day. > The lazy dog plopped down. > > I want to delete all lines starting with "The lazy dog" and replace it > with the single line, "The lazy dog is my favorite." where the first > "The lazy dog" was found in the file. > > I want this to work if the file has no occurrences of "The lazy dog"; I > want it to work if it has one occurrence of it. The text above would be > converted to: > > The lazy dog is my favorite. > The dog ate my lunch. > > I believe I can use > sed 'The lazy dog'/d > to delete all the lines containing that string, but I don't know how to > put my new line where the first deleted line was. > > Thanks for any help.
Doubtless there are better ways, but I would use (in bash) while read LINE; do blah blah done < lazy.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j7288g$369$1...@dough.gmane.org
