On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:26:59AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Is there a way from the console to use a grep like command to search a file > for, say the word "blue" and replace it with "red"? The key is console and > not within Vim, etc. I'm trying to set up a way to automate changing > .Xdefault setups with a simple Bash script. > I use this here once in a while for such tasks:
---------- snip -------------- #!/bin/sh # $Id: changer,v 1.1 1996/11/23 12:26:21 sami Exp sami $ # Sami Lempinen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.uta.fi/~f1sale PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin PID=$$ if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then echo 1>&2 Usage: $0 old-string new-strings file [files] exit 127 fi OLD=$1; shift; NEW=$1; shift; BASENAME=`basename $1` while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do echo Changing $OLD to $NEW in $1... sed "s/$OLD/$NEW/g" $1 > /tmp/$BASENAME.$PID cp -f /tmp/$BASENAME.$PID $1 rm -f /tmp/$BASENAME.$PID shift done; ---------- snip -------------- HTH, P. *8^)
