I need to change a value in a file, but this line occurs more than once in this file therefore as i know the line number this value appears on how can i change that? I thought i could use sed to change a particular line number but i dont see that in the man page, i am trying to change a value from line number 6 thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100409/d3d5f688/attachment-0002.html>
> I thought i could use sed to change a particular line number but i dont see > that in the man page, i am trying to change a value from line number 6% cat foo Hello line 1 Hello line 2 Hello line 3 # To change just line 2 % sed '2s/Hello/There/' Hello line 1 There line 2 Hello line 3 # To change line 2 and onwards % sed '2,$s/Hello/There/' Hello line 1 There line 2 There line 3 It's that simple :-) -- rgds Stephen