Search and Replace a value

[willct]

Hpux 11.11i v1

I need a script to search for a value and then replace that value.

thanks in advance!

 

[KenCunningham]

using sed perhaps? What have you got so far?

 

[willct]

this is what i have

1,$ s/find/replace/g

it would be nice to loop through range of unix scripts and change a value on the fly

 

[KenCunningham]

Try something like:

while read name
do
sed 's/OldString/NewString/g' $name > NewFile
mv NewFile $name
done < list_of_files.txt

where list_of_files.txt contains the names of the files to be searched and changed. I believe gnu sed has a facility for in-place editing, but perhaps Feherke, if he's around, can advise further. HTH.

 

[willct]

Thanks!!!!
The script worked just as i invision.
thanks again.