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Article #3863Re: DOS program for replacing text in multiple files
From: John Savage
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:00
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julian.ilicki@soc.uu.se (Dr Julian Ilicki) writes: >Let's say I have a number of text files (ASCII) with different >contents, but every file contains the same string of characters >e.g. "John". Now, I would like to replace all "John" in all these >files with "Bill". ftp ftp.coast.net /SimTel/msdos/textutil/ chang501.zip B 75902 950112 Change strings in text files change17.zip B 16992 930130 Change text in one or more files repstr40.zip B 94420 930714 Remove or modify strings in text files sed15x.zip B 21163 911015 Unix-compatible streaming editor v1.5 EXE/docs e.g., sed 's/John/Bill/g' <filein >fileout -- John Savage koala@sydney.dialix.com.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,9167b636e1508153,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f53ba,9167b636e1508153,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 111d31,9167b636e1508153,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111d31,public X-Google-Thread: 1674b9,9167b636e1508153,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1674b9,public X-Google-Thread: f71eb,9167b636e1508153,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public From: John Savage <koala@sydney.dialix.com.au> Subject: Re: DOS program for replacing text in multiple files Date: 1996/02/29 Message-ID: <4h3vu6$b6v$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> X-Deja-AN: 141587206 sender: koala@sydney.DIALix.oz.au references: <4ggfd3$29dm@columba.udac.uu.se> followup-to: comp.os.msdos.misc organization: Gumleaf Smoke Signals Telegraph Co. newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,aus.computers.ibm-pc