Re: [OT] Collective memory query
On 27 Sep 2004, Dale Amon wrote:
> A couple years ago I ran across a sed like program that will
> recursively descend through a tree and apply specified edits in place.
> I have searched my notes, gone through the deb available and have not
> been able to find it. Might just have been something on SourceForge...
>
> Has anyone else run across a program of this nature?
I don't recall any specific program like that, but wouldn't this do just
fine?
] find . -name '...' -print0 | perl -0pi.orig -e 's/foo/bar/gi'
That will recurse over files, editing them in place using Perl.
Alternately, with sed:
] sed -si.orig -e '...' `find . -name '...'`
More safely, but with more forks:
] find . -name '...' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -si.orig -e '...'
Wrapping your own shell script around that should be trivial.
Daniel
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