From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 11 12:07:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27564 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Post-Office.UH.EDU (Post-Office.UH.EDU [129.7.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27557 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zdenko@CS.UH.EDU) Received: from CS.UH.EDU (zeus.cs.uh.edu) by Post-Office.UH.EDU (PMDF V5.1-12 #U2811) with SMTP id <0F2900K84X7KUN@Post-Office.UH.EDU> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:06:56 -0600 (CST) Received: from blackbird.CS.UH.EDU by CS.UH.EDU (COSC/UH-zeus) id AA02973; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:06:44 -0600 (CST) Received: by blackbird.CS.UH.EDU (4.1/UH-4.1) id AA00902; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:07:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:06:44 -0600 (CST) From: Zdenko Tomasic Subject: Re: find and replace within files. In-reply-to: (message from Rick Aliwalas on Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:10:25 -0500 (EST)) To: fabry@panam.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: zdenko@CS.UH.EDU Message-id: <9811112006.AA02973@CS.UH.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Take a look at perl. It is probably the most convenient tool for that. (I think it could be done as a 1-liner). ZT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message