OT: looking for text file find and replace utility

[david nicol]

Here's one approach

Make a simple perl program that expands your 400 find/replace terms
into 400 lines of the form

	s/bcatb/dog/g;

and call that script subs.pl

Then invoke perl with the -p switch which causes the whole script
to get wrapped in a wrapper which processes input and writes output

also use the -i switch which causes the named data files to get replaced
with the processing output

Make a backup of your scripts in case something goes wrong, then
run

perl -pi subs.pl script1 script2 script3 script4 sctip5 script6

And then all the substitutions will be performed in all the scripts.

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:53, KRFinch at dstsystems.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> I've run into a bit of a problem and I was hoping someone out there in
> TV-Land might know the right tool for the job.
> 
> I have a group of 6 scripts that I need to do multiple find and replace
> operations on.  Basically the find and replace operations are all simple
> 'change all instances of "cat" to "dog"' type operations, but I have
> upwards of 400 of these searches that I need to be performed against each
> of these 6 scripts.  The thought of doing that manually gives me the
> willies, and it would take a lot of time.  I'd really like something I
> could just feed lists of variables into and let it go to town, even if it
> only did it for one file at a time.
> 
> I know that I could probably grep this all up pretty nicely (if I knew
> how), but I'm kinda stuck with Wintel tools.  Anyone out there come across
> any Wintel tools to batch lots of text file find and replace operations?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Kevin Finch
> Network Administrator
> DST Systems, Inc.
> 816/435-6039
> krfinch at dstsystems.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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