On Tue, 2 May 2006 20:55:23 -0700 Nathan England wrote: > > I absolutely just do not understand sed... > I have a ton of files and scripts I've collected over the years. > Through the course of time I was adopted and my name was changed, now > I am changing it back to my original name and I want to change my nme > in all my scripts... this is lame and tedious no doubt, but something > for fun. > > All my scripts are located in a series of folders contained under my > Documents folder. Basically, I need to find every file that contains > the word 'England' and replace it with 'Aubrey' try this: BE SURE TO MAKE A BACKUP copy of your Documents directory first. Then do: cd ~/Documents grep -R England | cut -d: -f1 | while read f; do sed 's/England/Aubrey/g' "$f" > "$f.temp" cp -f "$f.temp" "$f" done > > Can someone help please? > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 This email's random fortune: "We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities." -- Robin Williams, _Good Morning Vietnam_ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss