Re: [LUG] Find & Replace across multiple files

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> Anybody got any ideas on how to replace a long text string across multiple
> text files, using only a piece of paper, a pen, a piece of string and a linux
> box?

It gets kind of messy if the text string can be broken at
different line lengths and the like, recurs repeatedly on the
same line (you can always run it twice and make sure it does
nothing the next time just to be sure).

The SED FAQ tells you how to do it in both PERL and sed 

http://www.ptug.org/sed/sedfaq.htm

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