[NBLUG/talk] command line search/replace

[Barry Stump]

For the record, this worked for me:

find . -type f -exec grep -l 'this' '{}' ';' | xargs -l1 vim -c
'%s/this/that/gc'

-Barry

On 11/2/06, Ross Thomas <boscorama at fastmail.us> wrote:
> Ooops!
>
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:50:13 -0800, "Ross Thomas"
> <boscorama at fastmail.us> said:
> >
> >    cat file_list |
> >       while [read line] ; do
>
> That should read:
>       cat file_list |
>           while read line ; do
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Ross.
>
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