need help with a sed script
der.hans
PLUGd at LuftHans.com
Wed May 3 03:09:00 MST 2006
Am 02. May, 2006 schwätzte Kevin Brown so:
>> 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'
>>
>> Can someone help please?
>
> find . -name 'somefile' | xargs perl -ne 's/England/Aubrey/'
Shouldn't that be a p rather than a n?
One can also use i to make a backup copy
perl -pi.orig 's/England/Aubrey/'
That allows Nathan to go back and make sure he didn't accidentally rename
some country or someone else named England.
ciao,
der.hans
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