Find and replace text (patterns) within a text file in terminal

Post date: Aug 14, 2014 7:41:55 AM

Here is example to replace 'original' with 'new' in a text file called file.txt:

sed -i 's/original/new/g' file.txt

Note that -i means 'in-place'

good tutorial:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/20414/find-and-replace-text-within-a-file-using-commands