Multiple search and find

ZAMO · 01-20-2009, 11:27 PM

Hi all,

I can use

Code:

sed −e 's/erors/errors/g' −e 's/last/final/g' example

to multiple search and replace.

We can use

Code:

 sed -i 's/erors/errors/g' example

to do a permanent replacement. My question is how to do a multiple search and replace using sed -i .

Thanks

sycamorex · 01-21-2009, 04:08 PM

Code:

sed -i.bak −e 's/erors/errors/g' −e 's/last/final/g' example

It will create the file example.bak where the old (unmodified) version will be.

ZAMO · 01-21-2009, 11:02 PM

Sycamorex,

Thanks for your reply.

Code:

sed  −e 's/erors/errors/g' −e 's/last/final/g' example >newfile

we can do this , but we need to write to a new file. I want to do a find and replace the string, keeping the files as it is.

Any idea.

Thanks

sycamorex · 01-22-2009, 02:01 PM

Ok, this is probably not the most elegant way, but it works:

Code:

find . -name example -exec sed -i −e 's/erors/errors/g' −e 's/last/final/g' {} \;