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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:40:02 -0500
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: search and replace tool (Attn: gawk maintainer)
Cc: dAniel hAhler <cygwin@thequod.de>
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At 04:46 PM 2/18/2004, Igor Pechtchanski you wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
>> >Hello cygwin-list,
>> >
>> >I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
>> >a bunch (3500+) of files.
>> >
>> >That should be an easy one.. :)
>>
>> This isn't really Cywgin-specific.  As a result, it's off-topic for this
>> list.  I will, however, point you in one direction that could help.  'sed'
>> or 'awk' are good possibilities here.  


<snip>


>Larry, you missed 'perl'.  How could you? ;-)


Just trying to instigate a riot. ;-)


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