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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:48:07 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse |
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> down a directory tree? |
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You don't, that's not sed's job, which is to edit the text you give it. |
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Use find to generate a list of files for sed to work on. |
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> And while I'm at it, how do I change the field |
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> separator from / to enable me to search on that character? |
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By using something else, you don't need to tell sed, it works it out for |
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itself, just use something that isn't in your search string, : is a good |
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candidate. Or you can escape the / as \/ but this quickly degenerates |
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into the leaning matchstick appearance so beloved of Perl scripters. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Windows Error #01: No error... ...yet. |
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