[Gllug] Search and replace in a whole folder

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 13:53 +0000, Alex Singleton wrote:
> I need to update a few hundred HTML files. Basically, the footer of
> these webpages need updating. I could update them all manually, but I
> was wondering if there's a way of doing a search and replace on a
> whole folder? I understand that a command called gawk might help, but
> I don't know to use it. Any suggestions? 

sed

If you are using apache consider using mod_include for common page
elements like footers so you only have to change a single file to update
all pages without recourse to such things.

Jason

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