On 7/2/2022 4:05 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
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On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 1:07 PM Bob Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
As it took a long long time to upload these files, I'm hoping you all
know of a quicker way to make mass changes. Perhaps there is a GUI
interface for this. As I'd like to stay out of the maintenance of this
project, I'd be happy to give some of you write access to the repository
in order to accomplish the above changes.
My desktop system is Linux, so I can suggest the "Linux way" to do
this. You can change any instance of "All rights reserved" to "GNU
General Public License version 3" in all files in a directory called
"386max" by starting with this 3-line shell script: (save this as
changetext.bash)
#!/bin/bash
cp "$1" /tmp/tempfile
sed -e 's/All rights reserved/GNU General Public License version 3/g'
/tmp/tempfile > "$1"
..and then you run this command:
$ find 386max -type f -name '*.INC' -exec bash changetext.bash {} \;
What that does:
The "changetext.bash" script is just a quick way to batch up two
commands: make a copy of the file (I used quotes so variable expansion
would preserve spaces) then use sed to change the text from the copy,
and overwrite the original file. (The "#!" line is technically not
needed here, because the "find" command calls it with "bash" anyway.)
The "find" command starts at the "386max" directory, and for every
*.INC file that it finds, it executes the command "bash
changetext.bash {}" where "{}" gets replaced by the filename. You will
need to re-run this for any plain text file (like TXT or DOC or SRC or
..) that has the string you want to change.
After you run each "find" command, you can check what other files have
the string with this command:
$ find 386max -type f -exec fgrep -q 'All rights reserved' {} \; -print
My problem is not with making the changes, it's with uploading the
changed files. Unfamiliar with Github as I am, the only way I saw to
upload files is through their "Add file/Upload files" method. This
limits me to 100 files and some small number of MBs per upload.
This project has 580+ dirs, 4800+ files, and 200+ MB of data.
Trying to upload an entire directory failed many times for one of the
above reasons, so I had to split the directory into several (sometimes
many) pieces. I don't care to experience that pain again.
If you know of some trick to speed up the upload process, I'll be glad
to give you the appropriate permissions to do it.
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