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what is the sed command to swap 2 character strings in the same 1 line
- Posted on March 7, 2016
- DigitalOceanLinux Commands
Asked by orit gruber
example input file: 03-06-2016 output file: 2016-03-06
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Hello,
The following post on stackoverflow may be a great resource: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21061/cleanly-swap-all-occurences-of-two-strings-using-sed
You may also check out: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-sed-substitute-find-replace-multiple-patterns/
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