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Old 08-08-2007
Change the a string in the file
Hi experts,

If i have a directory and 10 files in it, which has string "Myapp" and i wish to change it to "Mydb" in all of the 10 files, how do i do that ?

Thanks very much

Regards
G
# 2  
Old 08-08-2007
Code:
perl -pi -e "s/Myapp/Mydb/g" *

# 3  
Old 08-08-2007
Do this
for file in `ls -l|awk '{print $9}'`
do
sed 's/Myapp/Mydb/' < $file > $file.new
mv $file.new $file
done
# 4  
Old 08-08-2007
WOW ! Amazing what a one liner in perl can do.

Thanks guys
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