It is not clear to me WHY you want to do what you want to do, but
anyways, you need to do
sed 's/HOH /TIP3P/g' filename
Note space after HOH. That way you will replace a 4 character string with a 4 character string and the rest should stay the same.
adrian
On 8/31/16 1:52 PM, Budhathoki, Dipesh wrote:
> Dear Ambers,
> I am new to the use of sed editor and learning how to use it effectively.I
> am trying to replace HOH with TIP3P in the PDB flle without affecting other
> columns (ie. without affecting format of the pdb). But I am finding it
> difficult to keep the format as it is. The sed command I am using is as
> follows:
>
> sed 's/HOH/TIP3P/g' filename
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