Suppose you have a file called foo.txt, which contains the following text on two lines:

Edinburgh is the best city in Scotland.
We love Edinburgh!
What is the effect of executing the following command?
sed 's/Edinburgh/Glasgow/g' foo.txt

Question

Suppose you have a file called foo.txt, which contains the following text on two lines: 
 
 Edinburgh is the best city in Scotland.
We love Edinburgh! 
 What is the effect of executing the following command? 
   sed 's/Edinburgh/Glasgow/g' foo.txt

Accepted Answer

The following output appears on the terminal: 
 Glasgow is the best city in Scotland.
We love Glasgow!

Answer

The following output appears on the terminal: 
 Glasgow is the best city in Scotland.
We love Edinburgh!

Answer

The file foo.txt is updated, with references to Edinburgh replaced by references to Glasgow.

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