From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-11-09T16:20:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Identify IP address from a text file and replace it with new address.

On 11/09/2010 08:07 AM, Chandu80 wrote:

> Thanks for the response.It did work.However isn't there a provision to
> edit the same file and save it?

ruby -p -i.bak -e 'gsub /\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3}/, "XX.XX.XX.XX"' a_file

If you omit ".bak" there is no backup.  Please see "ruby -h".

Kind regards

	robert