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BASH: replace all ocurences of 'abc' with 'XYZ' in given textfile Bash, like other shells, is just a tool for coordinating other commands. Typically you would try to use standard UNIX commands, but you can of course use Bash to invoke anything, including your own compiled programs, other shell scripts, Python and Perl scripts etc. In this case, …
sed 's/abc/XYZ/g' <infile >outfile
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