script for changing old to new in a textfile

[schleife]

hi,
i'm looking for a shellscript, which changes "old Text" to
"new Text" whithin several files in a directory.

thank's
schleife

 

[dickiebird]

Sed is the easy way :

for file_in_list in file_range
sed 's/Old Text/New Text/g' $file_in_list > tmpfile
mv tmpfile $file_in_list
done

file_range is your list of chosen files eg *.log test* etc etc

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[schleife]

thank's Dieckie Bird

it works well