blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> Thus Paul M Foster hast written on Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:16:54PM -0500, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
>
>> Anyone know of a nifty tool which will do a global search and replace of
>> text inside a bunch of files, all at once?
>>
>
>
> I use sed. The syntax is the same as the perl example:
>
> sed -e 's/string1/replacement/g' infile
>
>
> You'll probably want to run this sed with a for loop:
>
> for i in *.txt
> do
> sed -e 's/worker/slave/g' $i > $i.new
> done
>
I use sed for this as well, but instead of the "$i > $i.new" (assuming
that you want in-place replacement), use the -i option:
sed -i 's/string1/replacement/g' infile
--ronan
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