On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:07:40PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:48:03PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > > A couple years ago I ran across a sed like program > > that will recursively descend through a tree and apply > > specified edits in place. > > Has anyone else run across a program of this nature? > > This is probably more appropriate for -user but did you mean perl -pi? > > e.g. find some_dir -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/; s/wibble/wobble/'
find some_dir -type f | xargs sed -i -e 's/foo/bar/' -e 's/wibble/wobble/' Should work fine with more recent seds (sarge/sid has proper version). regards fEnIo -- _ Bartosz Fenski | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp:0x13fefc40 | IRC:fEnIo _|_|_ 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Polska (0 0) phone:+48602383548 | Slackware - the weakest link ooO--(_)--Ooo http://skawina.eu.org | JID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RLU:172001
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