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The file size is more than 40 GB. Want to find some text and replace it. I will be grateful if I will get some suggestion how to do it. There are three steps: 1. find space and remove it 2. find > symbol and replace it with "> ". 3. find < symbol and replace it with " <".

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    Grep... since you've tagged this shell. Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 12:35
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    One good way to find out how to do it is to search for your exact question and look at the answers. Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 12:38
  • stackoverflow.com/questions/17140886/… Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 12:45

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You could use sed:

sed -ie "s/>/\">\"/g" /path/to/file
  • -i: edit in place
  • -e: run the following command
  • "s/text/replacement/g": replace every occurrence of text with replacement
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Not my downvote... but this seems correct, so why downvote it?

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