hrmmm shell script or vi commands?

[tek-69]

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

[hijinks]

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

[tek-69]

hows it know we wanna change the word heh in the example? :/

[hijinks]

opps damnit.. i meant cat :)not heh my bad

[tek-69]

thanks for the info man that really helps speed things up.