[CLUE-Tech] find & replace on a tree of files

Mon Nov 1 15:13:43 MST 2004

Now, if only I could mod that so that it clears everything but one newline
between <head> and <title> and everything but one newline between </title> and
</head>, I'd be a happy dude.  It seems that I cannot find the right set of
RegEx's to do this...  Help?
____________________
    David L. Willson
  tel://720.333.LANS
 Linux+ A+ Net+ MCSE

Quoting "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>:

> Never let it be said that I missed an opportunity to show publically that I
> am
> the slow kid...
> 
> I just figgered out how to do this thing, and it seemed cool to me, so I'm
> sending it on to you.
> 
> The following one-liner is polluted with whacks to show you that it really
> should be all-on-one-line.  Actually, you can use it all-on-one-line, or with
> a
> whack at the end of each sub-line, like you see here.
> 
> What it does is the sub-tree beginning here (.), looking for files matching
> the
> spec '*.hay', which could be any spec.  The one I use most often is, sadly,
> '*.asp'.  Then, for each matching file, it finds each instance of
> 'old_needle'
> and replaces that text with 'new_needle', globally.
> 
> Incidentally, don't mess with the space-whack-semicolon at the end of the
> command, it matters a lot.
> 
> find . \
>  -iname '*.hay' \
>  -exec \
>   sed -e s/old_needle/new_needle/g -i.backup {} \;
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>  Linux+ A+ Net+ MCSE
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