Re: [cobalt-developers] find and replace shell script

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> 
> Can anyone suggest a command that I can use in a shell script that will
> help me do a find and replace action on a couple of thousand XML files?
> 
> I need to replace something like http://domain.com/images  with just
> /images and it can occur several times in the same file.
> 
> Unfortunately, due to the nature of XML, many of the files don't contain
> a single carriage return, just one very long line.

I tried posting this a couple of days ago, but it never showed up.
Second try...

cat file.xml | sed "s/oldstring/newstring/g" > newfile.xml

so for your specific string, you'd have to use some "\" to escape the
regular slashes, etc, and end up with:

cat file.xml | sed "s/http\:\/\/domain\.com\/images/\/images/g" >
newfile.xml


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Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.