On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 02:24:47PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * Nick Andrew <n...@nick-andrew.net> [2011-08-02 12:23:43 +1000]: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:29:44AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > For example, I want to replace "def fubar" with "def snafu" across 50 > > > files. > > > > perl -p -i -e 's/def fubar/def snafu/g' * > > I said: "PS I know about sed, and how to edit multiple files in vim > [1]." Supplying a perl recipe therefore isn't very useful. Perhaps I > should've said "ditto for ruby, perl, python, ...".
I know you know about sed but I don't know you know how to edit multiple files in-place in a single command in perl. sed is a pain to edit files in-place as it has to write to a temp file and then typically rename that temp file to replace the original file. > > If you are not using SCM (or git in particular), then you should be. > > http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com/tag/git/ Nice site. > Again, not the question I was asking... I don't know how to get your editor to do it and "leave only changed files open". I suppose it's possible using vim macros but it's not something I have spent any time learning. I know you know how to edit multiple files in vim but this is one of the more trivial features of the editor and I don't know that you know anything about vim macros or have any desire to learn what is probably a pretty complicated solution for a problem which can be solved easily with two steps. I would myself have done the refactoring exactly how I showed it, and let git keep track of what files have changed. If it's a problem with leaving the editor open with only changed files, then I can suggest something like this: vim -o $(git status --porcelain | awk ' /^ M/ { print $2 } ') Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
