Re: find & replace?

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"timothy" == timothy  <timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu> writes:

 timothy>         Hi, is there a console utility to find and replace in a file?
 timothy> Preferably on which can find & replace from a bunch of files
 timothy> as passed by 'ls' or something?

	Other have already pointed out sed, which is the forst one
 that springs to mind. There are others.
 ed
 Perl (perl -pli~ -e 's/old/new/g;'  *)
 awk 
 Emacs (emacs -batch ....)

	manoj
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