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hrmmm shell script or vi commands? - tek-69 - 2004-04-07 sup guys, I have a directory full of c files header files and whatnot. What i want to do is go into all the files in the directory and change specific strings to other specific strings, all at once. should i be looking up vi commands for this task or should i be reading up on shell commands and scripting? Any advice would be of great help. Thanks, Tek hrmmm shell script or vi commands? - hijinks - 2004-04-07 if you want to change the string "cat" to "Jy Rules" do this   to create backups of your header files just in case   perl -pi.bak -e 's/cat/Jy Rules/g' *.h   if you don't need backups   perl -pi -e 's/cat/Jy Rules/g' *.h hrmmm shell script or vi commands? - tek-69 - 2004-04-07 hows it know we wanna change the word heh in the example? :/ hrmmm shell script or vi commands? - hijinks - 2004-04-07 opps damnit.. i meant cat :)not heh my bad hrmmm shell script or vi commands? - tek-69 - 2004-04-07 thanks for the info man that really helps speed things up.