On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:35, Piero Calucci wrote:
> 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"
You may also want to try:
for file in `ls` ; do perl -pie 's/search/replace/' $file ; done
or, which may be better if you want your files are in various
subdirectories:
find . -type f -exec perl -pie 's/search/replace/' \{\} \;
which stands for:
find, from here, files and perform perl -pie 's....' on them
Hugs, Rui
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