On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote: > >Hello cygwin-list, > > > >I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in > >a bunch (3500+) of files. > > > >That should be an easy one.. :) > > This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As a result, it's off-topic for this > list. I will, however, point you in one direction that could help. 'sed' > or 'awk' are good possibilities here. Of course, you'd want to wrap > these in a script that created a new file and then replaced the original > with the result. This same process could be used on any platform that > supports these tools however so talking much about the details isn't really > appropriate. There's plenty of information on the net about these utilities > if you're interested in finding out more about how they work. > > HTH, > -- > Larry Hall
Larry, you missed 'perl'. How could you? ;-) FWIW, both perl and sed have the ability to edit files in-place (although this functionality is somewhat buggy in sed, see, for example, <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00773.html>). To make this more Cygwin-related, there is no man page for "awk" in Cygwin. There is one for "gawk". Since /usr/bin/awk.exe is a symlink to /usr/bin/gawk.exe, would it be possible to create a symlink to /usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1 as /usr/share/man/man1/awk.1? Corinna? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
