Search For a Word and Replace It In Entire File Using Egrep

Asked Jun 26 '17 at 21:22

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How do I search an entire file for a word and replace it with another word using egrep?

edited Jun 27 '17 at 01:10

Jeff Schaller

asked Jun 26 '17 at 21:22

J. Greer

You can't. Use something like sed instead. – Chris Davies Jun 26 '17 at 21:26
@roaima, you want to make that a full answer? it would be the right one. Don' forget sed -r works with extended regular expressions like egrep. – hildred Jun 26 '17 at 21:39
Everyone, I want to keep this around to point users at. FAQ!. – hildred Jun 26 '17 at 21:41

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