Need help writing script with vi

[Guilherme Belinelo]

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.

[Rainer_1 · Accepted solution]

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

[Guilherme Belinelo]

Thank you Rainer, that is just what I need.

[Leslie Chaim]

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.