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Old 09-16-2004
Replacing string1 with string2 in many files
I have 70 files and want to replace string1 with string2. How can i do that?.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 09-16-2004
man sed

Have you attempted to solve this problem at all? Do you have a script fragment to show us?!

To help you out - (i'd) use sed in a for loop to iterate through the files. But that's all you're getting 'til you post some of your efforts!

Cheers
ZB
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Old 09-16-2004
I want to replace 20040915 with 20040916.
# 4  
Old 09-16-2004
You still haven't posted your work so far.

However, benefit of the doubt granted that this isn't some kind of homework problem, then a script such as
Code:
#!/bin/sh

for file in /path/to/files/*
do
   sed 's/20040915/20040916/g' $file > $file.new
   rm $file
   mv $file.new $file
done

exit 0

If you want to keep the "old" copies of the files too, just remove the "rm" and "mv" lines from the script.

Cheers
ZB
# 5  
Old 09-16-2004
Its working. Thanks ZB.
 
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