My script to replace strings in ASCII files

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jan 11 12:46:31 PST 2006


On Jan 11, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Kristian Vaaf wrote:
> Just curious, what do I need to do to be able to execute this  
> script like:
>
> $ text-replace old_string new_string
>
> I find it a bit inconvenient having to edit the script for every  
> thing I need to replace.

Use positional arguments $1 and $2, rather than "old" and "new" in  
the sed statement.

-- 
-Chuck



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