[plug] multi-file find & replace

[Bevan Broun]

on Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 03:56:53PM +0800, Shackleton, Kevin <kshackleton at agric.wa.gov.au> wrote:
> I have a web site (done in frontpage) that refers to everything as
> ".htm".  Apache seems to prefer ".html".  How can I quickly find all
> occurrences in all files of '.htm"' and change them to '.html"'?  Some
> combination of shell and sed I suppose . .

Change to the top of the directory tree that you want to change. If you
are using a bourne shell (/bin/sh for example) do:

for f in `find . -name '*.htm' -print`;do
>g=`echo $f | sed -e 's/$/l/'`
>cp $f $g
>done

But there are many ways to do it.

BB
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