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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find and Replace in multiple files (Shell script) Post 26502 by asifraj on Tuesday 20th of August 2002 04:45:21 AM
Old 08-20-2002
hi,

try this,

cd <your_folder>
ls > out.sh

vi out.sh

:%s/^/perl -pi -e 's\/ABCD\/DCBA\/' /

save and exit

sh out.sh

and bingo....

"perl -pi -e 's/abcd/dcba/' filename" will basically do the substitution and listing all the files in a file then prepending this string in front of each filename, will produce a shell script out.sh which would run this perl command on each of the files.

hope it helps
asif
 

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NAME
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lwp-download [-a] [-s] <url> [<local path>] DESCRIPTION
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