Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a large file that has a line like: > > bindaddr=0.0.0.0 ; some other text > > I want to replace the 0.0.0.0 with my address 192.168.1.8 and remove > everything > else on the line to get: > > bindaddr=192.168.1.8 > > How can I do that? > > Thanks, > > jerry > I finally found a way to do it with sed. Which is what I tried first but I did not have the . before the $ sed "s/bindaddr=.*/bindaddr=192.168.1.8/" sorry to have taken tracffic. Jerry