[Tfug] Quick command line question...

[brandon]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:49 AM, brandon <brandons.daemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Say I've got a bunch of text files in a directory...all ending with
>> .TXT...a dozen or so.
>>
>> I know that in some, a particular word isn't spelled right - say,
>> "regurjitation".  I want to do a command to search for that and
>> replace it with "regurgitation" across all files where the bad one is
>> found, and save all files to their original names.
>>
>> Any help appreciated :).
>>
>> Jim
>>
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>
> Hi Jim-
> Not sure what distro you are using but there is a nice perl utility
> 'rename' that is on most.
>
> man rename
>
> Then you can do something like this to get an idea of what would happen.
> rename -n 's/regurjitation/regurgitation/' *.TXT
>
> Thanks
> -Brandon
>
>
Oh I think I didn't read that =) That will rename the files and not the
words in the files!
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