From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Global file edit?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:35:17 -0400
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> A decent programming editor should have builtin support for
> search/replace across multiple files. But if you need to do this
> in a standalone form, try something like:
> for file in $*; do
>         if [ -f $file ]; then
>                 echo "Editing $file"
>                 mv $file tmpfile
>                 sed -e "s/$oldstring/$newstring/g" tmpfile > $file
>                 touch -r tmpfile $file
>                 rm tmpfile
>         else
>                 echo "Error: $file not found"
>         fi
> done

    What's the 'touch' line for?

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     -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318