Date search/replace in bulk files

[Ashwin_4]

Hi,
I have 1000 .rtf file, is there any way to search & replace the date in all the files.
I want to chane 10/07/2006 to 31/07/2006.

Thanks in adv

[Victor Fridyev]

find . -name "*.rtf"| while read F; do
cat $F|sed 's?10/07/2006?31/07/2006?g > /tmp/tempfile
mv /tmp/tempfile $F
done

HTH

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

I would add some error checking to Victor's response and drop the 'cat':

find . -name "*.rtf"| while read F; do
sed 's?10/07/2006?31/07/2006?g $F > /tmp/tempfile
ret=$?
if [ $ret -eq 0 ]
then
mv /tmp/tempfile $F
ret=$?
fi
if [ $ret -ne 0 ]
then print -u2 ERROR: modification of $F failed
fi
done

mfG Peter

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,

perl -pe 's@10/07/2006@31/07/2006@' -i *.rtf

HTH,
Art

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
if you want to save the input files as well:

perl -i.old '-pe s@10/07/2006@31/07/2006@' *.rtf

HTH,
Art

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi Ashwin,
please, find a bit of time to assign points people reply you, trying to help.
It's very poor time consuming but very appreciated.

Rgds,
Art