Re: [OT] Shell scripting (2)
Re: [OT] Shell scripting (2)
- Subject: Re: [OT] Shell scripting (2)
- From: John Fowler <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:21:23 -0600
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Could someone point me in the right direction as to how to do a find
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and replace on files in the Unix shell? What I'm doing now is reading
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the file into a variable, using a TID handler to find and replace, and
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writing the contents back to the file. Since this is such a common
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need there is probably a much easier way to do it via shell scripting.
I have been trying to learn related skills. Try the following. It is
a work-in-progress and a use-at-own-risk handler:
on perlreplace(inputstring, targetstring, replacementstring)
set shellscript to "/usr/bin/perl -e '$rpl=q|" & replacementstring &
"|;$thisvar=q{" & inputstring & "};$thisvar=~s/" & targetstring &
"/$rpl/sg;print $thisvar;'"
log shellscript
set theResult to (do shell script shellscript)
return theResult
end perlreplace
Good luck.
PS I don't think it's off topic.
John Fowler
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