global replacements with sed

[Sam Vause]

In article <7630 at cbmvax.UUCP> grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <49 at docwrk.UUCP> srh at docwrk.UUCP (Steven R. Houser) writes:
>> I'm trying to use the sed editor to make global relacements, but I'm not
>> having much luck.  I tried RTFM, but it doesn't give an example of what the
>> script file should look like.  What I'm trying to do is replace occurrences 
>> of ^L with .bp macros.
>> 
>> When I use the a script file containing:
>sed -e '/^L/s//.bp/' should work, assuming it's a real control/l and not
>some kind of caret followed by an L.

How about:  $ sed "s/^L/.bp/g" filename......


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