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Replace whole line in a file from command-line

I have a text file which has some contents similar to this: # General information about the project. project = u'Py6S' copyright = u'2012, Robin Wilson' # The version info for the project you're ...
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Collapse repeating characters

Is there a more Bashist way than echo "$PWD//" | sed -e 's#//\+#/#g' to replace repeating slashes with a single one? Thanks Steven D, now there's a fully working function to find the longest common ...
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remove only specific text occurrences from string using sed

I have a text file that contains many rows of this sort of thing: /*[17:51:27][1 ms]*/ UPDATE `country` SET `region_id` = '4' WHERE `country_id` = '36'; Is there a way that I can use sed to remove ...
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Replace complex string in several files

A hacker got into a web server and added this string (removed some characters for security purposes and added line breaks for readability) in all index.php files: <?php ...