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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search and Replace in multiple files Post 302829617 by mjf on Friday 5th of July 2013 09:34:35 AM
Old 07-05-2013
Depending on your version of Unix, try this:

Code:
find . -name "file*.txt" -exec sed -i 's/^{{PreparerEmail.*}}$/{{PreparerEmail aaa@bbb.com}}/g' "{}" \;

Code:
cat file1.txt
{{PreparerEmail aaa@bbb.com}}

cat file2.txt
{{PreparerEmail aaa@bbb.com}}

cat file3.txt
{{PreparerEmail aaa@bbb.com}}

 

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nuaclgen

NUACLGEN(8)															       NUACLGEN(8)

NAME

       nuaclgen - NUFW acl generator

SYNOPSIS

       nuaclgen  [  --Schema eq|ineq ] [ --Aclname ACLDN ] [ --saddr NETWORK1 ] [ --daddr NETWORK2 ] [ --proto PROTONUMBER ] [ --sport P1[:P2] ] [
       --dport P3[:P4] ] [ --OsName OSNAME ] [ --OsVersion OSVERSION ] [ --OsRelease OSRELEASE ] [ --AppName APPLICATION NAME ] [ --AppSig  APPLI-
       CATION SIGNATURE ] [ --Separator SEPARATOR ] [ --jump [ACCEPT|DROP] ] [ --groups GROUPLIST ]

       nuaclgen [ --List ] [ --groups Id Group ]

       nuaclgen [ --Delete DN ]

       nuaclgen [ --help ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents the nuaclgen command.

       nuaclgen is an Access control list generator for the ldap backend of Nuauth, the authentication server of the NUFW package.

       Original packaging and informations and help can be found from http://www.nufw.org/

OPTIONS

       --Schema eq|ineq
	      Use equality schema or not (Equality schema requires dport be specified, and is the default.

       --AclName Acl DN
	      Add an acl in the ldap tree with dn Acl DN

       --saddr Network
	      Specify source network for the acl, with network of the form : aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd[/ee]. Default value : 0.0.0.0/0

       --daddr Network
	      Specify destination network for the acl, with network of the form : aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd[/ee]. Default value : 0.0.0.0/0

       --proto Protocol number
	      Specify protocol type for the acl

       --sport Source port
	      Specify source port(s) for the Acl. NNNN:MMMM can be used to specify a port range.

       --dport Destination port
	      Specify destination port(s) for the Acl. NNNN:MMMM can be used to specify a port range.

       --jump Decision
	      Specify decision for the Acl. Has to be ACCEPT or DROP.

       --groups Groups list
	      Specify the user group(s) on which Acl apply. Must be of the form : Group1[,Group2[,...]]

       --List --group Group ID
	      List Acls for the Group ID group

       --Delete Dn
	      Deletes the Acl stored in the provided Dn

       --help Displays a brief resume of available options and quits

SEE ALSO

       nufw(8)

       nuauth(8)

AUTHOR

       Nuauth  was designed and coded by Eric Leblond, aka Regit (<eric@regit.org>) , and Vincent Deffontaines, aka gryzor (<vincent@gryzor.com>).
       Original idea in 2001, while working on NSM Ldap support.

       This manual page was written by Eric Leblond and copyrighted by INL (2003-2005)

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version  2	as
       published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

								   12 mars 2007 						       NUACLGEN(8)
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