If you're running on a *nix system you may want to look at using find, xargs, and sed. Sorry I can't give you the syntax at the moment but you can google for the three of them and find several good examples.
Matt
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:24:39
To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to change the first line of a text file
On 6/12/2010 2:10 PM, Richard Kurth wrote:
>
> I have around 6000 text files and I need to change the first line on
> every one of them.
>
> The first line is the title of the article and I need it look like
> this <title>the name of the article</title>
>
> every file has the first line and the it starts the article on the
> second line
>
> The files are in many directory under one main directory
> like this
>
> top directory
> fashion-school
> Dogs
> DentalAssistant
> etc..........
>
> I need a script that will loop through each directory look at each
> file extract the first line and replace it with the example above.
> I have figured out how to pull the first line into an array but I
> don't no where to go from there to look in each directory and the
> write the data back at the top.
>
> $f = file('GENERAL HISTORY OF DOGS.txt');
> $a = '<title>' . $f[0] . '</title>';
> echo $a;
>
>
>
Something like this should do what you want: http://pastebin.com/jKvAiGYa
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