Question

I have a short text file with the following syntax:

FileName: some name
Version: 3
Length: 45
hello, this is an irrelevant, unimportant text.
So is this line.

Now, I’m trying to write a script that replace the version number with a given new number.

Anyone knows how to? I really don’t mind it to be ugly

thanks,
Udi

Answer 1

Why not just use sed?

sed -i 's/^Version: .*$/Version: 99/' foo.txt