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q4s72534

q4s72534

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Aug 19, 2003
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I want to over wright a word in my file. what is the command?
 
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Take a look at the R command

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PH.
 
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or use sed :
sed 's/oldword/newword/g' file > newfile

BTW - a sample of your text is always useful !

Dickie Bird (:)-)))
 
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