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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers edit file using sed (not create another!) Post 96127 by oldtrash on Wednesday 18th of January 2006 01:27:48 AM
Old 01-18-2006
edit file using sed (not create another!)
Hi,

I generally use Perl for this
ex.
perl -e 's/pattern/replace/g' -p -i <filename>

I did something like this..

find . -type f -exec perl -e 's/pattern/replace/g' -p -i {} \;

I want to do this with "sed"

but what I get is the output being printed on the screen..

i can do sed -e 's/pattern/replace/g' < input > output

but in my case of "find", i dont want to create a bunch of output files, rather the editing to take place in the same file..

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Balaji
 

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transmission-edit

TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				      TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)

NAME

     transmission-edit -- command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs

SYNOPSIS

     transmission-edit [-h] [-a url] [-d url] [-r search replace] torrentfile(s)

DESCRIPTION

     transmission-edit command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs

OPTIONS

     -h --help
	     Show a short help page and exit.

     -a --add URL
	     Add an announce URL to the torrent's announce-list if it's not already in the list

     -d --delete URL
	     Remove an announce URL from the torrent's announce-list

     -r --replace search replace
	     Substring search-and-replace inside a torrent's announce URLs. This can be used to change an announce URL when the tracker moves or
	     your passcode changes.

EXAMPLES

     Update a tracker passcode in all your torrents:

	   $ transmission-edit -r old-passcode new-passcode ~/.config/transmission/torrents/*.torrent

AUTHORS

     Jordan Lee

SEE ALSO

     transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1),
     transmission-show(1)

     http://www.transmissionbt.com/

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