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 don't know if sed has a problem with long lines or not, but you could
try this:

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

(All the "\" are to "escape" the regular slashes, punctuation, etc, so
they won't be interpreted by the shell...) Then newfile.xml would be the
modified file with "/images" and file.xml would still be your original
data with the "http://domain.com/images";...

HTH!

--
Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.