Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:32:15 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing string in multiple files Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030710143215.013626b8@sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20030710182658.GC49845@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20030710123009.0135fe88@sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20030710123009.0135fe88@sage-one.net>
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At 01:26 PM 7.10.2003 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
>In the last episode (Jul 10), Jack L. Stone said:
>> Am running FBSD.4.8-R
>>
>> At times, I need to replace an existing string in a file that has the same
>> name in all ~user accounts and know there must be a short script to do that
>> and suspect it involves sed(1). However, had no luck getting it to work
>> yet. Basically want to do this:
>>
>> - find same files in all ~users by same name "~users/myfile"
>> - replace this ${string} with this ${string} in the above files
>> - report list of above files modified successfully
>
>If all your users share a common hierarchy:
>
>sed -i.bak -e s/oldstring/newstring/ /home/*/myfile
>
>You'll need to be running FreeBSD 4.7 or newer for sed -i to work. Not
>sure how to get a list of changed files, though. Maybe just do a grep
>beforehand?
>
>--
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@allantgroup.com
>
Thanks, Dan.... knew it would be simple. Can probably grep and/or diff for
the changes....
Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator
SageOne Net
http://www.sage-one.net
jackstone@sage-one.net
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