Thank you lem, Do you have a link to a good tutorial on perl switches/commands for one-liner?
Che On 11/15/05, Lem Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Che Sosa wrote: > > >Mabuhay PLUG members, > > > >I have a problem of parsing text. What I want is to parse certain > >sequences from hundreds of files and replace them with a certain > >pattern of text. > > > >Is this doable with sh? What tools/programming languages is suitable for > >this? > > > >Che > > > > > might have a hard time with native shell, try perl > > perl -p -i.bak -e 's/\bfoo\b/bar/g' *.txt > > FWIW, more perl stuff here > http://www.math.harvard.edu/computing/perl/oneliners.txt > > HTH, > ---lem _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
