bash command

[Michael DeBruyn]

On 10/20/2011 04:29 AM, Jesus arteche wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I want to create  a script to change some words in some sonf files at 
> the start up of the system...do you know the command in bash for 
> search the word and replace it??
>
> Thanks
>
>
You will want to use something like sed.  An example:

sed -i "s/oldword/newword/g" /some/script.sh

This will replace all instances of oldword with newword in the file 
script.sh

If you want to do this at system boot you can put it in /etc/rc.local

-Mike
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