Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:50:33 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mass word find/replace Message-ID: <20040107195033.GE89134@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040107153034.GA98351@Uruk-Hai.Sanitarium.mine.nu> References: <20040106075951.4910.qmail@www-01.iinet.net.au> <44hdz7rdwk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <003e01c3d531$fec960b0$fa65a8c0@ocfl061> <20040107153034.GA98351@Uruk-Hai.Sanitarium.mine.nu>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:30:34PM +0100, Bj=F6rn Andersson wrote:
> sed(1) should be able do the trick.
>=20
> sed -e /pn_/s//nuke_/g *
>=20
> The above command should replace all pn_ to nuke_ in all files in the dir=
ectory you run the command.
Except that will print the result to stdout -- I suspect that the OP
would find an in-place edit more useful, like so:
sed -i.bak -e 's/pn_/nuke_/g' filenames
(Or any of the other responses in this thread.)
Cheers,
Matthew
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