[ale] mass file modifcation

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

I'm a fan of awk.  You can do a lot of fancy file manipulation with it.

Then wrap the whole thing in shell script.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> I need to update about 43k files and sed just won't cut it for this
>  task.   What I need to do is replace 2 lines with 4 new ones, and the
>  lines contain URLs (backslashes, brackets, etc.).  What I would like
>  to do is put the new text in a file and pass it and the search text to
>  some program that will modify all the files.   Any ideas on whats
>  available to do that?
>
>  Thx,
>
>  -Jim P.
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