Hi,
Yes there are quite a few ways to do that, another example:
GLOBAL REPLACE in the files:
awk '{gsub("call", "mall", $0); print > FILENAME}' *.kumac
change call to mall in all *.kumac files
Word of CAUTION: If you process really big files you may run into trouble,
that only part of your file will be processed. Above procedure has a limit
about 32K lines, rest of your file will be lost! (that was my IRIX gawk
experience) I think sed is better, but it may have limit too. Better check.
Sasha.
> sed was made for that. there are lots of other tools
> that are more programming-oriented (awk, perl, python...);
> sed is simple and a bit cryptic but good to get to know.
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> John Greer wrote:
> >
> > I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a
> > shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string
> > (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is
> > there a command or string of commands that I can do this in? If
> > this is possible it will make my life much easier!! Thanks
> >
> > John
> >
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