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Globally replaces a quoted string (preceded with SOMETHING=) in a file1 using sed. The result is saved in file2. This was tried and worked in OS X 10.9. #sed #osx #shell
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Replace quoted string in a file with sed
sed 's/SOMETHING="[^"]*"/SOMETHING="XXX"/g' file1 > file2
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