On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:53:47AM -0700, bruce wrote: > hi.. > > can't find my old solution to this!! need to know how to find/replace 'text' > in files in a directory tree. i'd like to be able to either do all files, or > all files of a specific extension > > replace "foo" with "bar" in all files in the dir tree > replace "foo" with "bar" in all (*.cpp) files in the dir tree > > thanks sounds like a job for find combined with sed. ======================================================================= Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. -- Dag Hammarskjold ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
