on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:42:08AM +0800, eechi von akusyumi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > suggestion: > > cat file | sed s/search/replace/gi >file2;cp file2 file1;
Note that this solution creates an additional process for each file
handled. The more elegant solution is:
$ sed -e '/search/s//replace/g' < file > file2 && mv file2 file1
My own preferred MO for the whole situation is to create an output
directory, so that duplicates of the files are created and can be tested
and/or checked before the originals are deleted:
$ mkdir output
$ for file in <pattern>
> do sed -e '/foo/s//bar/g' < $file > output/$file; done
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