Search and Replace using wildcards

[rthiele84]

I'm trying to do a search and replace of multiple files. I'm searching for the pattern:
CALL xxxxxxxx
Where xxxxxxxx can be anything
And I want to replace with
CALL 'xxxxxxxx'
The are always 8 characters in the called program, so just trying to figure out what I can use as a wildcard.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

[feherke]

Hi

sed "s/CALL \(.\{8\}\)/CALL '\1'/" /input/file

sed -r "s/CALL (.{8})/CALL '\1'/" /input/file

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[rthiele84]

Thank you for the help feherke!

Its just what I was looking for.