On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, tom ufer wrote:
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: String Replacement
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> This may be simple, but i'm reading and reading and I can't find out
> how. What i'm trying to do is a string replacement in many txt files at
> once. Say theres 100 files with the name Jim in them and I want to
> replace "Jim" with "Jim H". I can manually do it one by one with emacs,
> but there may be thousands of needed replacements and that would take
> OMG way too long.
>
> Any help?
>
> Thanks in advance.
You could write a perl script.. or awk.. or sed.. I've never used awk or
sed.. but you could do it in perl in only a couple of lines.. something
like
#!/usr/bin/perl
@files = glob("*.files.to.be.changed");
foreach $file (@files)
{
open(INPUT,">$file");
while(<INPUT>)
{
s/Jim/Jim H./g
}
close(INPUT)
}
something like that should work.. i'm coding perl off the top of my head
here though.. so.. it might not be exactly right..
Jason
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