csj schrieb: > 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
try this: find . -name *.txt | xargs perl -pi -e 's/foo/boo/g;' joachim
