> > A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing > every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of > files (potentially including all subdirectories as well). I think it > used sed or awk. Now I can't find it. The examples on the Web are all > multiline scripts or programs, but I'm sure I saw a way to do it all on > just one line. > > Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Check out tr(1). There are other ways, but for basic stuff, it is easy and fast. I use it often for stripping out the extra CRs from MSDOS files. Something like: tr -d "\r" < dirtydos > cleanunix does the trick. But it will do replaces and pretty much anything. Its syntax is a little different that regular expressions type (maybe a little easier actually) so read the man page. ////jerry > -- > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"