03-24-2011
Find and Replace then rename file
Hi,
This is probably quite simple for an expert, but I keep getting confused about the best approach, grep, awk, sed.
What I have is a range of files numbered 1 to 100. They go
file1.txt
file2.txt
and so on
In each file I need to find and replace a couple of items and rename add a suffix.
Eg file1-new.txt
file2-new.txt
I'd like to be able to run the shell script for example say it's called Renamer.sh in the command line like this Renamer 1
This would grab the file1.txt create file1-new.txt
Renamer 2 would grab the file2.txt create file2-new.txt and so on.
The find and replace I need is to search one large chunk of text that is in xml format so will include characters such as < " and /
Can someone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Travis
Also
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PS. I am working in Mac OSX so may not have the full unix commands.
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