On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:38:03PM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:18:57 +0900, Wonjae Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read the comment of > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/277753. > > (Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory) > > > > "perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g'" trick looks handy. > > Does Python have a similar trick? Or, is there a shorter Python recipe for > > the given problem? > > sure. > > python -c 'import os; os.system("sed -i s/change this/...tothis/g")'
You beat me to it, but you can cut a few more characters out of that. /tmp/> python Python 2.3.4 (#2, Jan 5 2005, 08:24:51) Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ^D /tmp/> sed -i 's/change this/...tothis/g' -Jack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
