[olug] Text search and Replace

[Brian Roberson]

cd /some/directory
for i in * ; do
sed -e 's/somestring/otherstring/g' $i > $i.tmp
mv -f $i.n $i
done


or recursive:

cd /some/directory
for i in `find /some/directory type -f ` ; do
sed -e 's/somestring/otherstring/g' $i > `basename $i`.tmp
mv -f  `basename $i`.tmp $i
done





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Norton" <jnorton at jggt.com>
To: <OLUG at olug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: [olug] Text search and Replace


> I want to search a directory on my computer and replace certain text
> within documents with a new text.
> 
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