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On Monday 02 December 2002 1:50 pm, you wrote:
I'll forward you what I've already posted to the list, seems pointless to repost to the list. (probably some problem on some server)
Yeah, it's bizarre, I dunno where the hell my message or your reply got to!
Hope this helps. Let me know if you're still having problems.
Unfortunately I am:
[jon@xxxxxxxxx pages]$ for file in *; do sed
-e's/\[control-set]*\[\/control-set]/\[comment]control_removed\[\/comment]/g'
$file > $file.new; mv -f $file.new $file; done
sed: can't read aboutus.html.new: No such file or directory
sed: read error on {Unknown file pointer}: Is a directory
sed: read error on {Unknown file pointer}: Is a directory
sed: read error on {Unknown file pointer}: Is a directory
sed: read error on {Unknown file pointer}: Is a directory
sed: read error on {Unknown file pointer}: Is a directory
sed: read error on {Unknown file pointer}: Is a directory
I'm sorry to keep pestering you, I ought to be able to fix these problems
myself, but I'm a bit of a command-line newbie (a Child of Windows, now
becoming slowly converted to a Brother of Unix).
Jon
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [LUG] Find & Replace across multiple files
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:17:40 +0000
From: Tom Salmon <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
References: <02113010270303.02320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<3DE92532.10302@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <02113013342004.02320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> 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'
The first option, after the 's' ('[control-set]*[/control-set]') has to
be a valid regular expression. You are going to have to read `man regex`.
You will most likely just have to escape some of the characters you have
used, for example:
\[control-set]*\[\/control-set]
(may work, but check man page)
Also escape (with a '\') the '/' character in the replace string.
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