On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:08:21 -0800 Bruce Timberlake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew Nuzum wrote: > > > > Can anyone suggest a command that I can use in a shell script that will > > help me do a find and replace action on a couple of thousand XML files? > > > > I need to replace something like http://domain.com/images with just > > /images and it can occur several times in the same file. > > > > Unfortunately, due to the nature of XML, many of the files don't contain > > a single carriage return, just one very long line. > > I tried posting this a couple of days ago, but it never showed up. > Second try... > > cat file.xml | sed "s/oldstring/newstring/g" > newfile.xml > > so for your specific string, you'd have to use some "\" to escape the > regular slashes, etc, and end up with: But with sed, you are not limited to / chars for delimiters. > cat file.xml | sed "s/http\:\/\/domain\.com\/images/\/images/g" > > newfile.xml sed 's|http://domain.com/images|/images|g' < file.xml > newfile.xml -Dale -- Dale P. Smith Treasurer, Cleveland Linux Users Group http://cleveland.lug.net Senior Systems Consultant, Altus Technologies Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-746-9000 x339 _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
