[ILUG] sed sorta question

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:24:26PM +0100, Paul J Collins mentioned:
> >>>>> "JPL" == Jet Propulsion Laboratory <john at antefacto.com> writes:
>     JPL>  I wanted to s&r %word1% with "foo", %word2% with bar and
>     JPL> %word3% with "baz" - is there a handy way of going about it ?
> You can use -e as many times as necessary.  Or put the expressions in
> a file, and do "sed -f <file>",

 Prolly the best thing to do...

bean [0]  cat file     

asdasd: %word1% asdasd
asda; asdasd %word2% asdasda %word3%

bean [0]  cat sed 
{
    s/%word1%/foo/
    s/%word2%/bar/
    s/%word3%/baz/

}
bean [0]  sed -f sed file 

asdasd: foo asdasd
asda; asdasd bar asdasda baz

 Danke.

Kate

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