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---- Find and replace text in unix

SeanW - 2:15 pm on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)


A shell script will do it fairly easily in one line

append.sh:

egrep -q "^$1$" babes.txt ¦¦ echo "$1" >> babes.txt

Usage:

append.sh "Anna Kournikova"

You don't need the shell script, but it saves a lot of typing ;)

Sean

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