Re: [ILUG] handy little shell function

From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Mon 07 Feb 2000 - 12:23:20 GMT


"John P. Looney" said:

> I'd to tear through a library & all my code that used the library and
> replace a load of function names that wouldn't clash with another library.
>
> Here's a handy shell function to do a search & replace on all the files
> you send it:

This is similar:

        perl -pi.bak -e 's/oldpattern/newpattern/g' *.c *.h

It also makes backups as "filename.bak".

--j.



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