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

["Dale P. Smith" <dsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:08:21 -0800
Bruce Timberlake <bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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:

But with sed, you are not limited to / chars for delimiters.


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


sed 's|http://domain.com/images|/images|g' < file.xml > newfile.xml

-Dale

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