On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:22:39 +0530, Chandrakant Reddy
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> Hi
>
>I want to replace all occurances of 'and' with '&' in all the given files
In-place with backup in filename.bk:
perl -pi'*.bk' -e 's/\band\b/&/g' filenames
> Here the problem is the files are owned by
Hi
I want to replace all occurances of 'and' with '&' in all the given files
inputfile.txt containts all the names of the files to process.
i wrote a small shell script for this
for i in `cat inputfile.txt`
do
cp $i ${i}.bk
sed -e 's/ and / & /g' ${i}.bk
