From: dave AT roborat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Dave Scott) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Global file edit? Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 19:27:30 +0100 (BST) Organization: none Message-ID: <19990806.1827.13749snz@roborat.demon.co.uk> References: <8D53104ECD0CD211AF4000A0C9D60AE301545D82 AT probe-2 DOT acclaim-euro DOT net> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 933968137 mail2news:15070 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse AT demon DOT net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!finch-post-11.mail.demon.net!roborat.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: SNews 1.30+mods(jlw990606/djgpp) built: Aug 6 1999 Lines: 37 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Tuesday, in article <8D53104ECD0CD211AF4000A0C9D60AE301545D82 AT probe-2 DOT acclaim-euro DOT net> djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Shawn Hargreaves" wrote: > Dave Scott writes: > > Is there a simple utility available to do something like this :- > > > > edit > > 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: > > ---- cut here, globalreplace.sh ---- > > #! /bin/sh Ah sorry, I forgot to mention I'm only just taking my first *very* tentative steps into the wonderful world of unix. For the moment I'm still running dos/command.com, and I've yet to take the plunge and install one of the unix-like shells. I'm moving in that direction, but slowly... FWIW I had a good dig around SimtelNet in the msdos/txtutl area, and came across several tools to do the above - one of the best being "global search and replace" (gsar110.zip). In the longer term (when I have more time to really get to grips with it), I'm planning on following Martin's advice re: Perl... Anyway, thanks for the various responses :-) -- ()---() (0 0) Dave Scott e-mail: dave AT roborat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk ----m-( )-m------------------------------------------------------------- =o=