Re: [LUG] Find & Replace across multiple files

[kevin bailey <kev.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

aparently emacs can do this - but i haven't got to that bit yet!

still - emacs is easy to install and has plenty of help on the web,

kev

Simon Waters wrote:

> Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
>  
>
> > Anybody got any ideas on how to replace a long text string across multiple
> > text files, using only a piece of paper, a pen, a piece of string and a linux
> > box?
> >    
>
> It gets kind of messy if the text string can be broken at
> different line lengths and the like, recurs repeatedly on the
> same line (you can always run it twice and make sure it does
> nothing the next time just to be sure).
>
> The SED FAQ tells you how to do it in both PERL and sed 
>
> http://www.ptug.org/sed/sedfaq.htm
>
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