On Thursday 26 July 2007, mal content wrote: > Hello. > > I have a large number of xcf files that have a section of > text embedded in them. Is there a tool or method available > to safely and reliably modify this text (replace it with > other text) from the shell, or some other interface that > doesn't require me to open 100 or so files in Gimp*? > > I'd ideally like to be able to do something along the lines > of: > > $ for f in *.xcf; do xcf_text_replace $layer_num file.txt; done > > thanks, > MC > > * they are huge files, I doubt my hardware could cope. > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy > with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com
If you are on a Linux or similar platform something along the lines of awk or sed could be possible approaches. I quote from an old manual: "The advantages of sed are that it can apply the same editing comands to many files; it can edit a large file quickly; and it can readily be used with pipes." -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
