This is easy in perl. For example, perl -i.bak -e 's/this/that/g' *.files Does in-place replacements, saving the original versions with .bak extension. Patrick McCabe At 01:53 PM 10/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Hey gang, > >This may have been covered before, but I was wondering how I can find and >replace in files. I've seen a couple of ways to do this, but the ones >I've tried are botched up in some way. Here's an example of what I'd like >to do: > >/dir contains about 150 files in it. >egrep "/^[ \t]some (fancy[.]+regex).*$/" *.files - shows 20 files with >matching lines. >I'd like to "s/^[ \t]some .+(fancy.+regex).*$/\1/" on those files. > >a script like this is doable: >for file in dir > ex "+:g/find/s//replace/" "+:wq" file > >but I can't help but think there's a better way, and one with more >features like being able to recurse through directories, or is faster, >etc. Is there a egrep/grep/etc tool that can do this? Or what tool would >you recommend? > >Thanks in advance... >Chris Frederick > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list