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Re: TXT-file question
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:25:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kyle McDonald writes:
> > > Somethign like: (this is untested so YMMV)
> > >
> > > for FILE in *.txt; do
> > > if sed 's/ABCD/WXYZ/g' < $FILE >$FILE.new; then
> > > mv $FILE.new $FILE
> > > else
> > > echo Pattern not found or other error in $FILE.
> > > rm $FILE.new
> > > fi
> > > done
> > >
> > > If you hav Cygnus installed on your windows machine that might
> > > work also.
> >
> > or, if you have perl (windows or unix), you can do this:
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> > perl -i.bak -p -e 's/ABCS/WXYZ/g' *.txt
> >
> > which will create a backup (file.txt.bak) before changing all 'ABCD' to 'WXYZ'.
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> I'm on a pretty straightforward XP 98 system, alas. Maybe I should just
> pay some neighborhood kids to do it for me...
Or get PERL for Windows http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
ROSCO
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| (...) I'm on a pretty straightforward XP 98 system, alas. Maybe I should just pay some neighborhood kids to do it for me... Thank you for the input, though. Dave! (24 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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