From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: search and replace on multiple files Date: 14 Mar 2000 11:00:15 GMT Organization: Ericsson Erisoft AB, Sweden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <8al63v$lsl$1@antares.lu.erisoft.se> References: <38CC0B8F DOT EAEB9F25 AT hotmail DOT com> <38CC0C58 DOT 6B1CB1F4 AT hotmail DOT com> <38CDBD2D DOT 7DCB5A57 AT caresystems DOT com DOT au> NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.lu.erisoft.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com leon (Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au) wrote: : Hello : just have discovered a way to do a global search and replace (ie on : multiple files) in vim. : It does however requiers the use of key mappings etc. : Was just wondering - if there is some binutil with djgpp distribution : which will allow for multifile search and replace. : and if such exists then where would i be able to read on it? Perl: "perl -i -ne 's/old text/new text/; print' one_file.txt another_file.txt" For more on perl see . Right, MartinS