perl can do that as simple as this:
perl -pi '.orig' -e 's/foo/bar/' * That would save copies of the original unchanged files with the extension .orig . and change foo to bar in every instance of every file in that directory. -----Original Message----- From: Rex Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mfg-smartcam] Mass Text Editing Utility Hello all, I was wondering if any of you have ever run across some sort of text editing utility that will allow a search and replace operation on all text files in a given directory. I have about 5,000 CNC programs that need a couple changes in their tool descriptions and I really do not want to do them all by hand! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rex Shea IMS 532 W. Lester ST. #130 Tucson AZ 85705 TEL (520) 670-9145 FAX (520) 670-9147 ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
