On 2006-05-05 @ 18:48:36 (week 18) H.S. wrote: > Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > > > > find . -name "*.html" | xargs sed -i.bak -e > > 's/string_to_replace/replacement/g' > > > > Does something like this work? If your match pattern spans more than > > one line than you'll need a more complex script.
Might I suggest using multi-line mode in your regexp for those cases? For perl the only thing you have to do is add the 'm' modifier to the regexp. See http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perlreref.pod for more info on that. I gather that sed and awk will have a similar feature too. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
