How to use the sed command : <p>I have a <strong>text</strong> file lets say with the name of "example" and has this data :</p>

<pre><code>data:data:data
data:data:data
data:data:data
data:data:data
</code></pre>

<p>I want to Display the file substituting all instances of the : character with 5 spaces using the SED command I have tried everything but its not working.
how will i do it ?
thanks</p>
