Giorgos Keramidas writes: GK> grep will do. You just have to pass it the right option: GK> GK> find . -type f | xargs grep -l 'foo' | \ GK> xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' GK> GK> When passed the -l option (this is a lowercase 'EL'), it will not print GK> the matched lines. Only the name of the files that *do* match. Then, GK> once you have a list of files that really do match with 'foo' as a GK> pattern, you can xargs sed on the list to substitute whatever you want :-)
It's interesting that there are multiple ways to do this in FreeBSD, whereas I've never found a way to do it in Windows, even with the fancy Visual InterDev I've been using for several years (it will _search_ for strings in multiple files, but it won't do replacements, so you have to search and then edit each file by hand--try doing this several hundred times, several times in a row sometime!). -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
