Re: Multible search and replace?

[mat@guillaum.via.ecp.fr (Mathieu GUILLAUME)]

Chad Zimmerman (chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu) wrote:
: Was just wondering if there is a package out that does multiple file
: search and replaces?  I have to go through my main html directory and make
: a lot of repetive changes.  Was wondering if there was a package or a perl
: script laying arround to do this.  Would same me the time of writing one
: up.

I think you should be able to do that with sed : sed s/X/Y filename
replaces all Xs with Ys in the file 'filename'. I dunno if it takes * as
an argument, but if it doesn't you should still be able to do it using
xargs.

					Mat


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