Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-29 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:54:06 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I honestly feel pity for the Windows using friends I have in cases like this. Don't do that, just point them to: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp and to: http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/ Not

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-28 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Giorgos Keramidas writes: GK grep will do. You just have to pass it the right option: GK GK find . -type f | xargs grep -l 'foo' | \ GK xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' GK GK When passed the -l option (this is a lowercase 'EL'), it will not print GK the matched lines. Only

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-28 12:04, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: grep will do. You just have to pass it the right option: find . -type f | xargs grep -l 'foo' | \ xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' When passed the -l option (this is a lowercase

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
My thanks to all who replied. I ended up using this form (I don't recall who suggested it): find . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' One problem, though: It appears that sed touches every file, resetting the last modification time, even if it didn't actually change anything. This

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-27 Thread markzero
My thanks to all who replied. I ended up using this form (I don't recall who suggested it): find . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' One problem, though: It appears that sed touches every file, resetting the last modification time, even if it didn't actually change anything.

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Hmm ... maybe I found it: grep -R -l xxx /www/htdocs | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/xxx/yyy/g' Does that look okay? Seems to work in my test. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-27 Thread markzero
Hmm ... maybe I found it: grep -R -l xxx /www/htdocs | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/xxx/yyy/g' Does that look okay? Seems to work in my test. -- Anthony Looks good! Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-28 06:56, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thanks to all who replied. I ended up using this form (I don't recall who suggested it): find . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' One problem, though: It appears that sed touches every file, resetting the last

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-27 Thread markzero
find . -type f | xargs grep -l 'foo' | \ xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' When passed the -l option (this is a lowercase 'EL'), it will not print the matched lines. Only the name of the files that *do* match. Then, once you have a list of files that really do match with

One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-26 Thread Anthony Atkielski
A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of files (potentially including all subdirectories as well). I think it used sed or awk. Now I can't find it. The examples on the Web are all multiline scripts

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of files (potentially including all subdirectories as well). I think it used sed or awk. Now I can't find it.

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-26 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:43:25 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of files (potentially including all subdirectories as well). I think it used sed

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of files (potentially including all subdirectories as well). I think it used sed or awk. Now I can't find it. The examples on the Web are all multiline

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-26 Thread Al Johnson
A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of files (potentially including all subdirectories as well). I think it used sed or awk. Now I can't find it. The examples on the Web are all multiline

AW: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-26 Thread Norbert Koch
Well, shell lines may be quite long ;-) Do you mean something like this sed -Ee 's/search/replace/g' -i .BAK `find . -name '*.c' -type f` A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of files

Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)

2005-01-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-26 16:55, Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:43:25 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago, I'm sure I came across a one-line way of replacing every occurence of one string with another in an entire directory of files (potentially