On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:54:34 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, I 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 > > sed is it! Thanks to John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, und eechi von akusyumi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the replies. Now my problem is how to > make sed recurse through directories. I managed to chain commands > together as: > > for i in *.txt ; do mv $i $i.tmp ; sed s/foo/boo/g $i.tmp > $i ; done > > Can anybody comment on this little script? This appears to work, but > may be inefficient. And it's one step removed from what I want, > recursive processing. That is, to have sed process files in > subdirectories of the current directory. I prefer something that can > receive its input from find: > > find . -name *.txt
for i in `find . -name *.txt` ; do ... -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
