Re: plug] find/replace text

On Fri, 27 May 2005, steve Phariss wrote:

> I am trying to replace all instances of .html to .php in multiple files
> (same directory) I have tried a few of the sed command scripts I found on
> the web, but they do not seem to be working.

for i in `find _start_directory_ type f -a print`; do
     cp $i $i.backup
     sed -e 's/\.html/\.php/g' < $i.backup > $i
done

should work, and yet leave a safety pristine copy behind

- Russ Herrold
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