Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:39:59 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Dave Scott <dave AT roborat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Global file edit?
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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dave Scott wrote:

> Is there a simple utility available to do something like this :-
> 
>    edit <existing_string> <replacement_string> <a_bunch_of_filespecs>

Write a batch file that does this for a single file (by redirecting
Sed's output and then mv'ing the result into the original file), then
use `find' to invoke the batch file on every file in turn.  Don't
forget to use -dosexec instead of -exec, and don't forget to invoke
the batch file through "command.com /c".  Something like this:

 find -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -dosexec command.com /c foo.bat {} ;

Where foo.bat is something like this:

      @echo off
      sed -e s/[^x]malloc/xmalloc/g %1 > tmp
      mv -f tmp %1

Actually, for this to work, you need to give a full pathname of
foo.bat on the `find' command line, or put it somewhere on your PATH,
because otherwise when (and if) it descents into subdirectories, it
will not find foo.bat anymore.

Note that I didn't test all this, so I might be missing something.