Chapter 12 Exercise 11, Introduction to Java Programming, Tenth Edition Y. Daniel LiangY.

12.11 (Remove text)
Write a program that removes all the occurrences of a specified string from a text file.
For example, invoking java Exercise12_11 John filename
removes the string John from the specified file.
Your program should get the arguments from the command line.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Exercise_11 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        if (args.length != 2) {
            System.out.println("Invalid arguments.");
            System.out.println("Usage: java Chapter_12.Exercise_11 word filename");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        // Check if the filename exist
        File filename = new File(args[1]);
        if (!filename.exists()) {
            System.out.println(args[1] + " does not exist.");
            System.out.println(2);
        }

        // create input and output files
        String s = "";
        try {
            Scanner input = new Scanner(filename);
            while (input.hasNext()) {
                s += input.nextLine();
            }
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        s = s.replaceAll(args[0], "");
        try {
            PrintWriter output = new PrintWriter(filename);
            System.out.println(s);
            output.write(s);
            output.close();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        System.out.println("Complete");
    }
}