Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:35:33 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: search and replace tool Message-ID: <20040220003533.GA2964@efn.org> References: <291592011.20040218205953@thequod.de> <6.0.1.1.0.20040218151724.0398d488@127.0.0.1> <40354B21.6040802@x-ray.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40354B21.6040802@x-ray.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:47:45AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: > Larry Hall schrieb: > >At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote: > >>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. > > But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing > via perl -i would be cygwin specific. > Anyone investigated this lately? That's just a matter of allowing unlinking an open file and creating a new one with the same name... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/