I gave you a script that would do this just the other day (the thread "Perl/C programmers, help pls"). Surely it's not that difficult to modify that to do this search/replace as well?
If you want to know what's going on in the script, here's a basic Perl tutorial: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html Matthew "Chad A. Adlawan" wrote: > > hello, > > i have like 10 thousand small files, some containing the text > "http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif" inside it while some dont. > can someone please help me with a script w/c views all these files and if > it sees a "http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif", will replace it w/ a > "http://www.cproda.com/smile.gif" ?. > > thanks a lot :-) > > chad > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null