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# 1  
Old 02-20-2009
Search and replace error
Hi,

I need a command to search and replace the string, dlp040 to mld200 in multiple html files. I used the following command but it doesnt work

sed s/"dlp040 "/"mld200 "/g *

Please help,

Thanks
# 2  
Old 02-20-2009
Does you input file have the double quotes in it?
# 3  
Old 02-20-2009
Hi,

I need a command to search and replace the string, dlp040 to mld200 in multiple html files. I used the following command but it doesnt work

sed s/"dlp040 "/"mld200 "/g *
HTML Code:
basically in the HTML FILES it is <!--dlp040--> which should be replaced by <!--mld200-->

Please help,

Thanks
# 4  
Old 02-20-2009
Then take the quotes off your prior sed command. It will work if you do this:
Code:
sed 's/dlp400/mld200/g' inputfile > outputfile

but I do not know how or if you can modify the input file in one sed command.

Something like this might work though:
Code:
for f in `ls *.html `
do
   sed 's/dlp400/mld200/g' $f > $f.new
   mv $f.new $f
done

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