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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:48:47 +0100
From:      John Russell <jr@paranoia.demon.nl>
To:        Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNIX search n replace 
Message-ID:  <200001211848.TAA24196@gazelle.bigmama.xx>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:59:44 MST." <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0304D97722@houston.matchlogic.com> 

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> Grab a Perl manual and build something along the lines of,
> 
> % perl -i.bak -pe 's/word1/word2/g;'
> 
> Charles
> 

or use
find . | sed s/word1/word2/g


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Kuuse [mailto:archiver@db.geocrawler.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 10:10 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: UNIX search n replace
> 
> 
> This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Juan Kuuse"
> <kuuse@quik.guate.com>
> Be sure to reply to that address.
> 
> More a common UNIX question than a FreeBSD topic:
> 
> grep
> to search a keyword multiple files
> 
> How do I search and replace one keyword for
> another in multiple files, any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Juan Kuuse
> kuuse@quik.guate.com
> 
> Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive
> 





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