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 don't know if sed has a problem with long lines or not, but you could try this: cat file.xml | sed "s/http\:\/\/domain\.com\/images/\/images/g" > newfile.xml (All the "\" are to "escape" the regular slashes, punctuation, etc, so they won't be interpreted by the shell...) Then newfile.xml would be the modified file with "/images" and file.xml would still be your original data with the "http://domain.com/images";... HTH! -- Bruce Timberlake Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc. _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
