Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 12:40:53 +0300 From: "Sergey S. Ropchan" <fenix@ramb.com.ua> To: questions@freebsd.org, Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Subject: Re: How to replace words in all files? Message-ID: <1115977253.28135.17.camel@sirius> In-Reply-To: <20050513092905.D003E4BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050513092905.D003E4BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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find / -name '*' -print | xargs grep "lnc0" - gives you all files in your system with lnc0 ... perl -pi.bak -pe 's/lnc0/rl0/' file1 file2 ... fileN - will replace lnc0 - rl0 in all specified files, with backuping of old files in *.bak > Hello! > > I have a bunch of configuration files which all contain the word, > or the reference to, my dysfunctional network interface lnc0. I used > to have this simple script -- to replace a word in all ASCII files > containing it -- with another word. In this case, I need to replace > the string `lnc0' with `rl0' in all my configuration files. And is > it possible having this script tell me what files it modified? > > I promise I'll write it down this time :) > And be generous on handing it back out to the society! > > > -- > > Fafa Hafiz Krantz > Research Designer @ http://www.home.no/barbershop > Enlightened @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf > > >
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