Stuart, Yes, that is exactly what I needed. Sorry for not being clear enough for the other guys. Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:11:14 +0000 From: Stuart Sears <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Mass find and replace with / as one item that needs to be replaced. To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <200501012011.14523.stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Saturday 01 January 2005 16:07, Jeffrey Strain wrote: > need to find and replace a path in many files. I am wondering how to do > this. > > I tried using perl -pi -e, but do not know how to replace the path > without messing up the command due to the / in the path. Any assistance > would be greatly appreciated. If I understand this correctly you have a number of files which contain text similar to /path/to/a/directory and you want to replace this text with something like /a/different/directory personally I lean towards sed on this one. the / as a pattern separator is not set in stone - you can use almost anything you want (at least with sed, you can. dunno about perl). so a command similar to sed -i.orig 's,/path/to/a/directory,/a/different/directory,g' myfilename will do the actual replacement for you. sed now does in-place editing. the -i.orig will backup the original version of myfilename as myfilename.orig all you need to do now is give it the correct files to work with. -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. -- Sigmund Freud Jeff Strain Database Administrator LDS Business College (801) 524-8189 jstrain@xxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
