[plug] grep task?

[Onno Benschop]

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 17:02, John Knight wrote:
> 1. search through the files for "anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com"

This returns a list of files that match your string:

	grep -ril "anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com" *


> 2. if found, replace with "entombednerds at yahoo.co.uk"

There is a whole thread in the archive using sed and awk, even dd to do
this.


> 3. report the name of the file that's just been changed.

You already have the list from the first command.


> Is that possible?

Yes :-)


<aside - feel free to ignore>
I was going to sign off with: "And for a fee I'd even write it for
you.", but then I thought someone might get upset about that.

Perhaps another way to put it would be to say that from your message I
see no evidence that you tried anything yourself, so I see no reason to
do anymore than point you in the right direction.

That too sounds a tad harsh, but I suppose I'm from the school where you
at least try yourself first, attempt to help the helper in the process
and gratefully acknowledge their support when it's done.

I realise that you could also put on a free-software hat, but I'm in the
business of writing software, so free as in beer doesn't pay for my
car-repayments or my satellite dish.
</aside>


Onno Benschop 

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