Re: Command line search and replace

[Michal F. Hanula]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? 
> Something along the lines of:
> 
> replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process
> 
> I find it a bit of a hassle to keep 100+ files open just to change an 
> ".html" to an ".htm." Note however that I intend to use the tool on 
> other text files besides runaway web pages, such as processing a list 
> of files to feed to tar.
> 
Use something like

for file in * do sed 's/replace this/by this/g' < $file > $file.tmp; mv 
$file.tmp $file; done

(there probably _are_ errors, check man sh)
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