On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 15:15, ghwbush wrote: > I have a directory of about 60 files. I want to search these files and > replace some text. Is there an easy way to do this from a command > line? for file in `ls` ; do cat $file | sed 's/search/replace/' > $file.new ; done assuming you are searching for "search" and want to replace it with "replace" Piero -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list