John Greer hat gesagt: // John Greer wrote:
> I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a
> shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string
> (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is
> there a command or string of commands that I can do this in? If
> this is possible it will make my life much easier!! Thanks
And here's my favourite one(liner) in perl:
$ perl -p -i.bak -e "s/foo/bar/" *.txt
Replaces foo with bar in every file ending in .txt and makes backups.
See man perlrun
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Frank Barknecht ____ ______ ____ __ trip\ \ / /wire ______
/ __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\
/ / / ____/ / / / // ____// /\ \\ ___\\____ \
/_/ /_____/ /_/ /_//_____// / \ \\_____\\_____\
/_/ \_\
