If your sed allows the -i switch, you could do something like this:
perl has a switch to edit a file in place too. If you have neither, you could use temporary file names and mv the changed file back to the name of the original.
Last edited by zaxxon; 11-02-2010 at 12:18 PM..
Reason: added a missing /g
Gurus,
I have in my /tmp directory 26 files "filea", "fileb"..."filez". Each file contains the name of a database 'dwora' at many, many places within each file.
My boss decided to change the name of the db so I need to do (what i'd call) a global search&replace of that string in all my... (0 Replies)
Hello all
I need to search and replace in multiple files that are in directory hierarchy
Im using the :
find . -name "*.dsp" -print | xargs grep -n -o Test.lib" , I like to be able to replace every instance of Test.lib
with empty space .
how can I write one liner that does this ? (3 Replies)
I have a file where the rows correspond to individuals and the columns are about 106 variables. Each variable is coded as either ACGT, and "missing" is coded as blank. This is a tab delimited file. I'm trying to replace all blanks (" ") with 0. The simple script I have is only replacing some of the... (3 Replies)
I have a rather complicated search and replace I need to do among several dozen files and over a hundred occurrences. My site is written in PHP and throughout the old code, you will find things like
die("Operation Aborted due to.....");
For my new design skins for the site, I need to get... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a folder which contains multiple config.xml files and one input file, Please see the below format.
Config Files format looks like :-
Code:
<application name="SAMPLE-ARCHIVE">
<NVPairs name="Global Variables">
<NameValuePair>
... (0 Replies)
Hello.
I have five config files in /etc that I want to edit in one click for testing.
I would like to make a script like this :
#!/bin/bash
#
a_file="/etc/file_1"
src_str="src_string_1"
rpl_str="rpl_string_1"
calling_sed_or_awk_or_whatelse $a_file search_for_all $src_str replace_with... (4 Replies)
When I use special characters the command to replace multiple files with a string pattern does nt work.
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This works
perl -pi -e 's/100/test/g' *
This does nt work
perl -pi -e 's... (1 Reply)
I have a list of files all over a file system e.g.
/home/1/foo/bar.x
/www/sites/moose/foo.txtI'm looking for strings in these files and want to replace each occurrence with a replacement string, e.g.
if I find: '#@!^\&@ in any of the files I want to replace it with: 655#@11, etc.
There... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have hundreds of files in which I need to change email address. Here is what I am trying to do:
1. All text files are in a directory "a"
2. In the text file, I want to replace email address for preparer. All these lines start with {{PreparerEmail and end with }}. The email... (3 Replies)
Hi there,
I am using AIX and trying to search and replace a string with another string in multiple files in different directories.
I wanted to search replace in steps so I don't change all of the instance anywhere in the server at once, minimizing impact.
STEP 1:
--------
I first searched... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: zaino22
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