Mass find and replace with / as one item that needs to be replaced.
Stuart Sears
stuart at sjsears.com
Sat Jan 1 20:11:14 UTC 2005
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.
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Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
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