[Gllug] Batch Text Replacement

[Dan Kolb]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:50:33AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> 	for file in *.html
> 	do
> 		tmp=$(mktemp "$file.XXXXXXX")
> 		sed 's/ *style="[^"]*"//' "$file" > "tmp" && mv "$tmp" "$file"
> 	done

GNU sed allows for in-place editing, so you don't need the redirects and 'mv'.
Check up on the '-i' option.

Dan
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