Replacing a string using a wildcard 1

[eholdo]

Hi Everyone,

I need to replace a string using a wildcard. In other words, a nawk or sed routine to do this:

string to replace "This is a test"

But may occur as "This is not a test"

I want to use something like a wildcard, such as:
"This is * test"

To find and replace both instances in a file.
Any thoughts?

 

[raider2001]

Here's a way to do it in sed.
sed 's/This is .* test/TESTING/' file > newfile

 

[eholdo]

Excellent. Thanks for the help!

Erik