From: "Nathan Kinkade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 12:13 PM Subject: Re: Find & Replace string
> In a website of 1.GB+ with several hundred thousand files, I need to > interrogate all files to replace a single string like "oldone.010" with > "newone.011" > > What's the best way to do this? > > Thanks in advance! > > Best regards, > > Jack L. Stone Are you talking about changing the name of the file itself, or a string within the file? If it's the former then a shell for loop work. Maybe something like: $ for file in $(find /somedir -name "*.010"); \ do mv $file $(echo $file | sed -e 's/oldone/newone'); \ done If the latter, then using perl, perhaps with the -e -i switches, might work well. man perlrun(1) for some tips. Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------- No, I want to interrogate several hundred thousand files throughout several thousand directories to find/replace a single string within each file found. The string may appear more than once in a file. Thanks for the reply.... _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
