OK heres the story i made and maintain my mother websites she has for selling puppycoats now when i originally made it i did it on wndows using frontpage 2003 using dynamic web templates. Now that im all converted to linux i need a way to change the header on every page. im assuming i ahve to use the grep command somehow but im kidna clueless as to what exactly i msut do. oh and i know i should be doing jsut a php include but her host doesnt support it very well and i could never get it to work right. any help would be great thanks.

Simple

Read man page of grep for more info. Hope this helps

Probably something like this: WARNING Untested code below!

for file in *.html; do sed 's/Text I want to change/What I want to change it to/' $file >$file.tmp;mv $file.tmp $file

I dont know who to make either of thsoe work the grep command ony lets me do one file at a time and the sed command jsut keeps pushing the line down and when i close it off with a ; it gives me an error.

Ah... yes... That tends to happen with untested code. :-)

From the looks of it, that for loop needs a "done" at the end. I guess I'd recommend a good book on shell scripting to get you started. And maybe you should start out trying something simpler. ;-)

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

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