Report this

What is the reason for this report?

what is the sed command to swap 2 character strings in the same 1 line

Posted on March 7, 2016

example input file: 03-06-2016 output file: 2016-03-06



This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

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/

Please let us know if there is anything else we can help you with.

Best, Mike DigitalOcean Support Check out our community for great tutorials, articles and FAQs! https://digitalocean.com/community

The developer cloud

Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Get started for free

Sign up and get $200 in credit for your first 60 days with DigitalOcean.*

*This promotional offer applies to new accounts only.