Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Use of sed

[Alex Schuster]

Peter Humphrey writes:

> I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse
> down a directory tree?

find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' '{}' \;

> And while I'm at it, how do I change the field
> separator from / to enable me to search on that character?

Well, just change it :)  It does not need to be a /, it is always the first 
character after the s. sed 's%foo%bar%g' will work just the same.

I used to use the § character because it is probably not being used in any 
of my file names, but maybe it was too special, because kate dropped it 
silently from my shell scripts I edited, and hell broke loose.

> I used to have a "SED and AWK" book, but it seems to have walked; and I
> can't see anything helpful from a Google search.

man sed answers your second question :)

	Wonko