Find word, replace line

Hi,
What AWK code should i use to:

look for a certain word in a file, if found replace the whole line, else do 
nothing

Thanks,
fré

On 23 Feb 2004 03:53:24 -0800, griemer@chello.nl (fr?) wrote:

>Hi,
>What AWK code should i use to:
>
>look for a certain word in a file, if found replace the whole line, else do nothing


(assuming gawk)
In *ix
awk '{if(tolower($0) ~ /word/) $0 = "new line"; print $0}'  file >
target

in Windows
awk "{if(tolower($0) ~ /word/) $0 = \"new line\"; print $0}" file >
target

That assumes that the word cannot appear as part of another word.  If
it can and you know something about where it appears in the line, then
/ word / can be used if it is between two spaces, /word / if it is
the first word on the line, etc.

I'll leave the general solution of examining each of the fields
individually to someone else.



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