On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:10:14PM -0400, Trevor Smith wrote: > On February 11, 2004 09:33 am, Piero Calucci wrote: > > btw if you are going to _replace_ text you should better look at sed or > > perl one-liners > > Dude, that was exactly the plan. But I couldn't get sed to *find* the text, > let alone replace it, so I concentrated on figuring out the regex (with grep) > and couldn't, so I emailed you. :-) > > Now, how I am going to search/replace multi-line blocks of HTML in files using > sed? Good question. I'm afraid the power of sed has not been my friend (too > new to this). > > -- > Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Trevor, Try using find to locate the files and run sed on each file. i.e. find . -exec "sed 's/oldtext/newtext/g'" ... John V. Pope
