On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:36:08 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:48:07 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse > > down a directory tree? > > You don't, that's not sed's job, which is to edit the text you give it. > > Use find to generate a list of files for sed to work on.
I'll do that. I was confused by a vague memory that there was a recursion flag somewhere, but I must have been mistaken. > > And while I'm at it, how do I change the field > > separator from / to enable me to search on that character? > > By using something else, you don't need to tell sed, it works it out for > itself, just use something that isn't in your search string, : is a good > candidate. The man page makes no mention of that, and when I tried it anyway I got puzzling results, so I assumed it couldn't be done. > Or you can escape the / as \/ but this quickly degenerates into the > leaning matchstick appearance so beloved of Perl scripters. Horrors! Thanks to all for the help. Maybe I should replace that text-book after all. -- Rgds Peter
