[wplug] Find and Replace

[Edward C. Smith]

Check out Freshmeat for srsed. It's an interface to sed that filters multiple files into it and can use regex to make changes.

I use it fairly often.

-Ed

On 15 Nov 2002 05:27:13 -0500
J Aaron Farr <jaaronfarr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Both my shell scripting and perl skills are really poor, so I'm looking
> for a suggestion here:
> 
> What I'm want is a simple script that will do a find and replace over a
> number of files.  Specifically I've got a bunch of FORTRAN files and I
> want to easily change a variable declaration like "N=10" to "N=20".  So
> assuming I have all the files I want to change in my working directory,
> then I should be able to run some command like:
> 
> replace.sh *.for
> 
> Where I would edit the strings I want to search and replace in
> replace.sh.  I suppose that could also be sent via command line.
> 
> I know there should be simple ways to do this with perl, or even
> ed,ex,sed,or awk.  I'm just not sure what would be the simplest.  Any
> suggestions?
> 
> -- 
>   jaaron    <jaaronfarr at yahoo.com>
> 
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Edward C. Smith
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