how to search/replace text in mutliple files?
John V. Pope
jpope_rhn at popes.net
Wed Feb 11 19:25:29 UTC 2004
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:10:14PM -0400, Trevor Smith wrote:
> On February 11, 2004 09:33 am, Piero Calucci wrote:
> > btw if you are going to _replace_ text you should better look at sed or
> > perl one-liners
>
> Dude, that was exactly the plan. But I couldn't get sed to *find* the text,
> let alone replace it, so I concentrated on figuring out the regex (with grep)
> and couldn't, so I emailed you. :-)
>
> Now, how I am going to search/replace multi-line blocks of HTML in files using
> sed? Good question. I'm afraid the power of sed has not been my friend (too
> new to this).
>
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Trevor,
Try using find to locate the files and run sed on each file.
i.e.
find . -exec "sed 's/oldtext/newtext/g'" ...
John V. Pope
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