[Gllug] Awk Sed

[Colin Coles]

There's a useful little script called swap.pl that I often use for recursive 
search & replace, saves having to remember long & complex commands.
http://www.cgiware.com/swap.htm

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Colin.

On Thursday 06 Dec 2001 7:20 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all
>
> If I wanted to change the same pattern in mutiple files held in a directory
> do I use sed or awk.  I hate going into each file and using vi. I want the
> text to be modified in the file and not redirected to another place.
>
> Also is there anywhere on a linux machine where you can get  decent
> examples of how to use a tool. I know that the man pages are there but they
> are an absolute nightmare to decipher.

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