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Explore Stack InternalI'm writing a shell script (bash) to fetch and build several bits of software, the. The script also writes several small config files and needs to alter a couple of pre-existing config files. What is the best way to find and substituesubstitute a few lines of a text file from a bash script?
This sounds like a job for sedsed, but I don't understand the syntax...
I'm writing a shell script (bash) to fetch and build several bits of software, the script also writes several small config files and needs to alter a couple of pre-existing config files. What is the best way to find and substitue a few lines of a text file from a bash script?
This sounds like a job for sed but I don't understand the syntax...
I'm writing a shell script (bash) to fetch and build several bits of software. The script also writes several small config files and needs to alter a couple of pre-existing config files. What is the best way to find and substitute a few lines of a text file from a bash script?
This sounds like a job for sed, but I don't understand the syntax...
I'm writing a shell script (bash) to fetch and build several bits of software, the script also writes several small config files and needs to alter a couple of pre-existing config files. What is the best way to find and substitue a few lines of a text file from a bash script?
This sounds like a job for sed but I don't understand the syntax...
