Re: sed

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:49:58PM -0800, srinivas murthy wrote:
> How can work the following scenario:
> 
> assuming the test below:
> This is onetext that needs 
> to be one file that need not 
> be deleted oneanother.
> 
> 
> Now I want to replace the "one" with "two" 
> if I use 
> sed -e s/one/two/g
> it will replace even "oneanother" to "twoanother"
> 
> I want to replace only words "one" with "two"( means
> exact macth of one)
> 
> Hope I am clear .

Perhaps the comp.unix.shell newsgroup is better suited for these questions.

sed 's/\<one\>/two/g' could work woth GNU sed.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal