On Tuesday 08 February 2005 23:57, naxis wrote: > Sorry to bother you with this but I want to know. > I tried to use sed to change the perl path of my cgi scripts in a > directory. > from /usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl > #sed 's/\/usr\/bonsaitools\/bin\/perl/\/usr\/bin\/perl/g' *.cgi > it didnt work so I changed every thing one by one but I know sed can do > the job for me. > can someone teach me that? > thank you here is a script I use to do that sort of thing, using sed you have to write to a new file #!/bin/bash #============================================================================ # # purpose: replace a string within a file # original file is replaced with updated file # # usage: replace-string oldstring newstring file_name_list # #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- tmp=/tmp/replace$$ if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then echo "usage: $(basename $0) oldstring newstring file_name_list" exit 1 fi oldstring=$1 newstring=$2 shift 2 for file in $* do if [ -w $file ]; then sed "s/$oldstring/$newstring/g" $file > $tmp mv $tmp $file else echo "$file not writable" fi done rm -r $tmp #============================================================================ modify it as needed. enjoy. paul -- Paul F. Almquist paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Eau Claire, WI USA
