[rescue] OT: financial woes

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Jul 10 18:43:27 CDT 2002


On July 10, George Adkins wrote:
> > s/dentists/lawyers
> >
> allright, this has been driving me crazy,
> what the hell is this s/whatever/whatever thing?

  It's an ex/vi/sed command to search for a string and replace it with
another.  For example, to search for whatever1, replace it with
whatever2:

  s/whatever1/whatever2

       -Dave

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