Use sed. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: mjn <mjn at umn.edu> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: [TCLUG:21324] Probably an easy sh/perl question... > I have a huge directory of config files for some majordomo lists, all of > which have one line which I want to change. > > Now I have been doing some perl scripting for awhile, i am still quite > green, but it always seems to take me twice the time to code the script > than would have been just to do the manual edit. > > Anyone know an easy way to change all of these files? It is going to have > to involve some reg-exp because the variable is sender = owner-listname > which needs to be changed to listname-owner. > > The regexp manuevering isn't really a problem, I have something that will > do that actually. The place where I usually run into problems is the > gathering of filenames and then the interaction with those files... > > so anyone got a quick answer to this problem? > > ____________________________ > Mike Neuharth > ADCS Technology Specialist > http://www.umn.edu/adcs > > E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu > Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com > http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ > ____________________________ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org