topic Re: Need help writing script with vi in Operating System - HP-UX

Need help writing script with vi

Guilherme Belinelo — Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:17:17 GMT

Hi,

Can someone help me in replacing a word in several ascii files within a folder? What I need to do is replace the word cgi.exe for cgi in html pages.

Re: Need help writing script with vi

Rainer_1 — Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:26:29 GMT

you can use a little script

for file in *.html
do
sed -e 's/cgi.exe/cgi/g' $file >$file.tmp
mv $file.tmp $file
done

Re: Need help writing script with vi

Guilherme Belinelo — Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:52:05 GMT

Thank you Rainer, that is just what I need.

Re: Need help writing script with vi

Leslie Chaim — Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:51:03 GMT

If you have perl available this is more consice:

perl -pi -e 's/cgi.exe/cgi/g' *.html

Perl will do all the magic for you.