[plug] Vim batch command

[Ryan]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 08:38, Garry wrote:

> I'm using " vim *html s/bgcolor='white'/bgcolor="#00cc00" ".
> 
> Can't find any clues in the vim docs, and I haven't worked out sed to
> use on it's own on files yet..

Maybe you need to escape the inner double quotes?

Don't know about vim or outputting files in sed - use perl :)

    perl -p -e 's/bgcolor='white'/bgcolor="#00cc00"/ig' *.html

You could also add -i.bak to leave a backup of each file

Ryan