Re: [LUG] Find & Replace across multiple files

[Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 30 November 2002  3:53 pm, you 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?
>
> If all your files are in one directory, simple:
>
> Using bash:
> for file in REGEX; do sed -e 's/FIND_REGEX/REPLACE/g' $file > $file.new;
> mv $file.new $file; done
> (that's just one line, please excuse any line wrapping)
> Replacing REGEX, FIND_REGEX, REPLACE with appropriate values.

So I say:

for file in *; do sed -e 's/[control-set]*[/control-set]/[comment]controls 
removed from here[/comment]/g' $file > $file.new; mv $file.new $file; done

And it says:

sed: -e expression #1, char 69: Unknown option to 's' 

I'm sure it's just a little typo, but I'm not quite sure how it all works. 
Yeah, I'll get around to reading the man pages sometime... ;-)

Cheers for your help!

Jon


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