john hedge wrote:
> My challenge is to search a directory of text files for a string which I
> want to replace wherever it occurs with a new string and save the file with
> the changes in the same original file name.
In the past I've used something like:
for file in `find -type f -name 'whatever'`
do
(echo '1,$s/oldstring/newstring/g' && echo 'wq') | ex $file
done
.. quite successfully for this purpose. It basically just drives 'ex' to do
precisely what you'd do if you were doing it manually.
Test it somewhere with a copy of your files first though!
regards
Terry
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