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I want to replace this line : "test compare [property get [findObject ":dlgGotoLine.lineNumText"] visible] true" and make it "#test compare [property get [findObject ":dlgGotoLine.lineNumText"] visible] true".
How can I do it ? And it should be checked in many sub folder files also.

How can i do it ?

1. write a sed script which should substitute the text as:

Code:

sed 's/test compare \[property get \[findObject ":dlgGotoLine.lineNumText"\] visible\] true/#&/'

2. find all the text files in the required folders using...

Code:

find . -type f

3. fed the files as input to the sed script, and redirect the output to the original files if need be.

Hope this helps.

Another command to substitute the line:

Code:

sed 's/\(.\)\(.*\)/\1#\2/' file

So u mean to say that I should use a pipe in between two commands u described . I mean:

find . -type f | sed 's/test compare \[property get \[findObject ":dlgGotoLine.lineNumText"\] visible\] true/#&/

Is it so ? My files are of tickle file type (.tcl). So could you please brief up more.

its not working for:
test compare [property get [findObject ":dockBottom.winDebugControl.tabBreakpoints.table"] shown] true

What i did is:
find . -name "*.tcl" | sed 's/test compare \[property get \[findObject ":dockBottom.winDebugControl.tabBreakpoints.table"\] shown\] true/#&/'

Is this correct ? If so its not working. Can u plz correct me...

Thanks

It is not working means .. Is there any error displayed .. If the regex is not matching your text, try altering it to match...

You have not followed the mentioned 3rd point correctly .. It could be followed as

Code:

find . -name "*.tcl" -exec sed -i 's/testing/#&/' {} \;

-i to tell sed to edit the file(s)

Got it ??

Sorry . Dont feel bad. But I did not get it. But I found the answer my self.

U just verify is this right ?

find . -name "*.tcl" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/test\ compare\ \[property\ get\ \[findObject \"\:dlgGotoLine\.lineNumText\"\]\ visible\]\ true/#test\ compare\ \[property\ get\ \[findObject \"\:dlgGotoLine\.lineNumText\"\]\ visible\]\ true/g'

This work fine for me and always....


Thank you. :-)