Re: [Gnumed-devel] Help with grepping

[Ian Haywood]

Richard Terry wrote:
> If I wanted to replace one name with another, for all the files in a 
> directory, how do I do it??
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
Do you mean, replace a string in all files, or in filenames?
Andreas has given an answer to the second
The first would be:

for i in `ls`; do
        sed --in-place "s/oldname/newname/" $i
done

Ian

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