Re: [SLUG] search and replace

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@nospam.uts.edu.au>]

Dean Hamstead wrote:
> Is there a command in vi or somesuch standard cli editor to search and
> replace
> in my case change all ".org" entries to ".com" in the dns files
> im sure awk or seomthing can do it also....

cat your_dns_file | sed 's/\.org/\.com/' > new_dns_file

The \. escapes the dot and the dot is there so that names
like www.organ_society.org don't end up as
www.coman_society.com

If you want to do it for ALL files in the directory then use
#!/bin/sh
for i in *; do
	cat $i | sed 's/\.org/\.com/' > $i.new
done

You'll prob need to somehow select what files you want
processed based on their name or extension or contents
rather than selecting all files as above.

Mike

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