in unix, and windows/dos, the Perl programming language has a command like
"s/smith/jones" which is like "substitute all occurances of 'smith' with
the word 'jones'". I think Word 97 will do this too a little, but one
file at a time. Perl can just be fed file after file, so you'd have to
make a little script that would for-next files into the substitute
command, but i bet the windows version of perl is pretty friendly...
borrow the 'camel' book by o'reilly for perl. I figure that windows
visual basic business has this feature too. pretty timeless data
crunching endeavor.
unix has sed/awk also.
i wonder if farmer's manual "fsck" is from the unix filesystem check
command "fsck", or do I have the wrong acronym? <---idm content
OST owes me money <---more contemporary-styled idm content
solenoid
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Greg Clow wrote:
quoted 13 lines Does anyone know of a tool under UNIX, DOS or Windows that will go through>
> Does anyone know of a tool under UNIX, DOS or Windows that will go through
> all of the text files in a directory and change a text string into another
> text string?
>
> The reason I ask is because I don't feel like manually going through the
> 100+ playlists on my website and changing all of my links to the Ninja
> website from the old site to the new one. :)
>
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> Greg
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