[ale] HOW2->automate search/replace text in ALL *.c files in Tree?

Alexander Barton abarton at mindspring.com
Sun Nov 26 08:44:57 EST 2000


Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
> Happy Holidays !
> 
> I know how to do a find/replace in a single file using Xemacs but not
> how to do a find/replace on all files in a Tree ? Any help here ?
> 
> Also, perl is available, but I'd prefer a xemacs answer as I plan on
> this environment, unless there's a better environment. How 'bout it ?
> 
> Thanks once more to all,
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Courtney


find . -name \*.c -print |
while read FILE
do
        mv $FILE $FILE.bak
        sed -e "s/Windows/Linux/g" $FILE.bak > $FILE
done

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