Replace all occurrences of a string

[Shabam]

Is there a utility or command that will allow me to replace all occurrences
of a string within all files in a directory?

I'm trying to mass update IP addresses of all DNS zone files in my
/var/named/ folder.

[Jim Gibson]

Re: Replace all occurrences of a string

In article <aOadnR3r7tGRHQ fcRVn-ug@adelphia.com >, Shabam
<xxredbaronxxx@ hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Is there a utility or command that will allow me to replace all occurrences
> of a string within all files in a directory?
>
> I'm trying to mass update IP addresses of all DNS zone files in my
> /var/named/ folder.[/color]

You can use a Perl one-liner of the type

perl -pi'bak' -e 's/bar/baz' /var/named/*

See 'perldoc perlrun' for more options. Try it out on some test files
first!

[Joe Smith]

Re: Replace all occurrences of a string

Jim Gibson wrote:[color=blue]
> In article <aOadnR3r7tGRHQ fcRVn-ug@adelphia.com >, Shabam
> <xxredbaronxxx@ hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>Is there a utility or command that will allow me to replace all occurrences
>>of a string within all files in a directory?
>>
>>I'm trying to mass update IP addresses of all DNS zone files in my
>>/var/named/ folder.[/color]
>
>
> You can use a Perl one-liner of the type
>
> perl -pi'bak' -e 's/bar/baz' /var/named/*
>
> See 'perldoc perlrun' for more options. Try it out on some test files
> first![/color]

You'll need the closing slash and probably the g modifier on that s///.

perl -pi.bak -e 's/oldtext/newtext/g' /var/named/*

More sophisticated stuff with /e.

perl -pi -e 's/(10\.0\.)(\d+)( \.\d+)/$1.($2+100).$3/e' /var/named/*