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Hi,
How do I search and replace whole words using sed? Doing sed -i 's/[oldtext]/[newtext]/g' will also replace partial matches of [oldtext] which I don't want it to do.
Thanks, Kenneth
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I want to replace the a string with the word string as the following example down , but if a string exist also after comment then a string will replaced too
In which way I can add to the sed command the irregular exp that ignore from the #.
[root@localhost tmp]# more test
a
b
aa
bb
#a
#b
#aa
#bb
[root@localhost…
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$ sed "s/\(^[a-z,0-9]*\)\(.*\)\( [a-z,0-9]*$\)/\1\2 \1/g" desired_file_name
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Hello there.
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