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Bill Moran wrote:

>Frank Laszlo <laszlof@tvog.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>Jim Pazarena wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I would like to traverse my /users/home tree searching
>>>for all regular files and change any lines which read:
>>>  "/cgi-bin/Count.cgi ..." to:
>>>  "http://counter.qcislands.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi ..."
>>>
>>>I kinda think that a 'find' with an -exec of 'sed' would do
>>>it but I'm not sure, and even if it were, I'm not sure of
>>>the syntax.
>>>
>>>Could someone help me please?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>Jim
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>for i in `find /users/home -type f`; do
>>    sed -i '' 
>>"s|/cgi-bin/Count.cgi|http://counter.qcislands.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi|g" $i
>>done
>>    
>>
>
>The only thing I would recommend different is to provide a backup file
>extension to the -i option of sed.  That way it keeps a copy of the file
>as it was before sed touches it.  This will save you a lot of headaches,
>if sed does something you don't expect.
>
>  
>

Yes, very good call.


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