Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:41:43 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: find and replace within files. Message-ID: <199811111743.MAA02129@laker.net>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:11:32 -0600, Alain G. Fabry wrote: >Is there any way in FreeBSD that I can search in files for certain lines and >replace them with something else? >f.e. search for Name and replace with Last_Name >This needs to be done thruogh a whole directory tree. >Can you refer me to a command which will do this? Most experienced unix users, AFAIK, would use sed for this. I believe sed is fairly difficult to master quickly from the man page and I think your need is immediate. I suggest getting a book on sed from O'Reilly, see www.ora.com Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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