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Subject:    Re: best way to replace text in a lot of files?
From:       Tim Brumfield <brumfit () DFA ! STATE ! MS ! US>
Date:       2007-05-31 14:48:23
Message-ID: 465E99E6.58DC.0013.0 () dfa ! state ! ms ! us
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That worked great John! Thanks a million!

>>> John Dunn <JDunn@SEFAS.COM> 5/31/2007 8:42:56 am >>>
Try escaping the slashes in your path using a backslash.... 


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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Tim Brumfield
Sent: 31 May 2007 14:39
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU 
Subject: Re: best way to replace text in a lot of files?

John, is there a way to change the "/" delimiter, since the forward
slash is part of my "edit"? Thanks!

>>> John Dunn <JDunn@SEFAS.COM> 5/31/2007 8:14:06 am >>>

find mydirectory -name "*.*" -print | xargs perl -pi.bak -e
's/oldstring/newstring/g' 


This also creates a .bak version of any file it changes


John 

 


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Tim Brumfield
Sent: 31 May 2007 14:09
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU 
Subject: best way to replace text in a lot of files?

I need to change a path in a lot of text files. Does anyone have a shell
script to do something like this? As an example, I would be changing
"/dbadmin/test/financial/scripts" to "/financial/scripts". I have
hundreds of files to change. I am running aix5.3. Thanks in advance!



-tim


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