On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Chris Rodliffe wrote:
>
> > I have a query - is there any cunning way (using grep or some similar
> > command) to replace a short text string in all the files in a directory
> > with another specified string? I know many things are possible with
> > Linux, just wondering if that is?
> >
> > Chris
> > -
> If you don't want to bother with perl,
>
> find <directory> -type f |xargs -i sh -c "sed 's/shor\
> t text string/another specified string/g' {} |safe {}"
>
> The backslash at the end \
> of the first line I just used to continue the command before it would
> get folded in the mail - it has no syntactical significance otherwise.
>
> You can get safe at
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/text/safe-2.0.8.1.tar.gz
>
> I think that is where ftp://metalab.unc.edu is now. I can mail you a
> copy if you can't find it.
>
> Once you install it, man safe and [p]info safe have a few examples.
>
> Lawson
>
'man safe' works on my system too, so I guess I already have it.
Linux is just packed full of neat goodies that I don't even know are there
unless some kind person tells me.
Perl or Safe oughta do it, one or the other.
Many thanks!
I think what I really need is some program called 'Index' that will list every
program on my system and just what it can do. ;-)
Chris
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