From: dave AT roborat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Dave Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Global file edit?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:42:16 +0100 (BST)
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I've just spent several hours getting to grips with sed, find and xargs,
and I realise I'm no closer to being able to do what it was I went
looking for in the first place :-\

Is there a simple utility available to do something like this :-

   edit <existing_string> <replacement_string> <a_bunch_of_filespecs>

Say for instance I wanted to replace all existing calls in a project
to malloc(), with calls to xmalloc() instead...
   "edit malloc xmalloc *.c *.cpp"
which would make the changes in all the affected files, and ideally
retain the original files renamed with .bak extensions (or similar).

The only way I can do anything like that at present is to redirect the
output of a grep into a file, and out of that manually create a batch
file (involving lots of separate calls to sed and rename).

There must be an easier way?

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