Re: replace the string in all the files in the directory
- From: Rafael Almeida <rafaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:40:07 -0200
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:43:43 +0100
Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
for f in *.c ; do
cp ${f} ${f}~ && sed -e 's/string/replacement/g' < ${f}~ > ${f}
done
cp is used instead of mv, to keep the owner and access rights of ${f}.
&& is used to avoid overwritting the original file if the copy
didn't complete successfully.
Usually, you don't substitute strings, but tokens or words; read
man sed and man 7 regex and use \<word\> in the regexp!
I think he wanted to replace a string such as
"I'm a C literal string!"
to something else. So sed probably won't work for him, as a string may
span through several lines.
.
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