replace text in a file from the command line...

dudboy · #1 (**permalink**) 09-04-2001

I am having to do a lot of searching thru files to replace words. Is there a command that i can run that will alow me to hunt thru a group of files and replace one word with another without having to open each file idividually?
-thanks

rwb1959 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-04-2001

Sounds like you also need "sed"
http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/dis/texi2html...2/sed_toc.html

You can place this in a loop in a shell script.
You can get the files to edit from ls or find.

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