Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040218151724.0398d488@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:25:44 -0500 To: dAniel hAhler , cygwin-list From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: search and replace tool In-Reply-To: <291592011.20040218205953@thequod.de> References: <291592011 DOT 20040218205953 AT thequod DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote: >Hello cygwin-list, > >I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in >a bunch (3500+) of files. > >That should be an easy one.. :) > > This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As a result, it's off-topic for this list. I will, however, point you in one direction that could help. 'sed' or 'awk' are good possibilities here. Of course, you'd want to wrap these in a script that created a new file and then replaced the original with the result. This same process could be used on any platform that supports these tools however so talking much about the details isn't really appropriate. There's plenty of information on the net about these utilities if you're interested in finding out more about how they work. HTH, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/