[Gnumed-devel] Re: Help with grepping

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Ian Haywood wrote:

> > Thanks in anticipation.
> Do you mean, replace a string in all files, or in filenames?
> Andreas has given an answer to the second
Yes.

> The first would be:
>
> for i in `ls`; do
>         sed --in-place "s/oldname/newname/" $i
                                       ^^^^^
You might add a 'g' here which leads to

        sed --in-place "s/oldname/newname/g" $i

if it might happen that oldname occures twice or more in one row.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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