Hi,
>>"timothy" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
timothy> Hi, is there a console utility to find and replace in a file?
timothy> Preferably on which can find & replace from a bunch of files
timothy> as passed by 'ls' or something?
Other have already pointed out sed, which is the forst one
that springs to mind. There are others.
ed
Perl (perl -pli~ -e 's/old/new/g;' *)
awk
Emacs (emacs -batch ....)
manoj
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