On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > Hi List, I swear I tried, but how can I make a whole line substitution > using 'sed'? I mean I have a 'word', then I want to find the 'line' where > 'word' is and so change this whole 'line' by a 'phrase'. All that I got > with 'sed' by now is change 'word' by another 'word'. > > I'd appreciate very much any attention. > Try something like: sed -e 's/^.*line.*$/new_text/' filename
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