On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:27:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| I need to do a search and replace on multiple files. I think awk should be usefull
|for this, but I have no experience with awk at all.
| Maybe someone has a script lying around that replaces string1 with string2 in all
|files in a directory recursively which I can clone?
| URL's of sites with simple awk scripts are welcome as well.
I used bsed for this:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/bsed
It's a wrapper for sed (which reads stdin and writes stdout).
Thusly:
bsed 's/this/that/' several filenames here ...
or
find dir -type f -print | xargs bsed '/a regexp i dont like/d'
Pretty much takes the same arguments as sed (surpise surprise).
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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