Re: Howto search and replace...

[Graeme Mathieson <graeme+usenet@mathie.cx>]

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Hi,

Jaume Teixi <teixi@6tems.com> writes:

> Howto search and replace for a pattern over all system files ?
> 
> It's faster with vi, ed ?

sed.  And a bit of shell script.  For instance (off the top of my head,
so no guarantees):

for i in $file_list; do \
        mv $i $i~; \
        sed -e "s/old/new/g" < $i~ > $i; \
done

And that'll even leave the old version of the file with a ~ extension.
$file_list can be generated with something along the lines of:

$file_list=`find /etc -type f`

That'd give you a list of all the files in /etc.

Let me guess - you're trying to change you're domain name? :)

- -- 
Graeme.
graeme+sig@mathie.cx

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