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From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org>
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Subject: Re: grep & replace
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 rg@gds.de wrote:

> Hallo,
> 
> I have to replace one special word in about one hundred files. The 
> expression could be several time in some files.
> 
> Is there something like grep that would not only find these 
> expressions but also replace them by the new one?

yep... it's sed:
#!/bin/sh -
for i in $*; do
	sed -e 's/word/newword/g' < $i > /tmp/$$.sed.out
	mv /tmp/$$.sed.out $i
done

that will replace all of `word' with `newword' in all the files listed on
the command line.... hope this helps... ttyl..

John-Mark

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