Write a shell command to substitute the first Nick to John in report.pdf
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This document provides a solution to substitute the first instance of "Nick" with "John" in the file report.txt and save the output to report_new.txt using the sed command. It demonstrates using sed to search for the pattern "Nick" and globally substitute all matches with "John" by redirecting the output with > to create the new file report_new.txt.
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Write a shell command to substitute the first Nick to John in report.pdf
- 1. Write a shell command to substitute the first Nick to John in report.txt and save the result to report_new.txt Solution By default sed uses stdout, so shell's redirect operator is to be used, as in our example below. This is a most simple example, but we illustrated a few points: we match the pattern "Nick" and we substitute all instances with "John". Note that sed is case-sensitive. $ sed 's/Nick/John/g' report.txt > report_new.txt