Re: Mass Replace

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:58:25AM +0100, c.n naveen wrote:
> > From: "Faisal" <[email protected]>
> > Like I need to change company name from over 200
> > files htmls with new
> > name how can I do that.
> > 
>     for file in $*
>     do
> 
>        sed s/compname/newcompname/g $file >          
>                                  /tmp/temp.html
>        mv /tmp/temp.html $file
>    
>     done 

Much easier to use the "replace" command.

example:     replace Old_String  New_String   *.html 


All done.



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