Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:47:06 -0700 From: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: UNIX search n replace Message-ID: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0304D97797@houston.matchlogic.com>
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From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com] |> Charles Randall wrote: |>> Grab a Perl manual and build something along the lines of, |>> |>>> perl -i.bak -pe 's/word1/word2/g;' | |Not quite the generic UNIX way. Uh, whatever. These days, Perl is a standard Unix tool. |A better approach to the original question would be: | | for i in *.c *.h; do | sed <$i 's/word1/word2/g' >$i.bak; | mv $i.bak $i; | done IMHO, the Perl one-liner is concise and practical. To be perfectly clear... this one-liner is equivalent to Greg's shell snippet, % perl -i.bak -pe 's/word1/word2/g;' *.[ch] Seeing more than one way to accomplish the same task is probably the best way to learn. To each his own, Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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