global search and replace
brian
lists at karas.net
Tue May 13 10:35:23 EDT 2003
On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 10:22, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> >vim supports most standard perl-esque regexp/search and replace type
> >functions. You can do global search/replace in vi/vim with something
> >like:
>
> Yeah, but how do you do this on thousands of files at once without
> having to manually open each one, enter the editing sequence, then
> save each file.
In writing my reply I overlooked the part about thousands of files at
once, my solution was more of an individual file-by-file process. A
couple of others have already posted the "right" answer, which is to
essentially invoke perl from the command line, feeding it the files for
input.
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