How to mass Search & Replace in text files.

[Jamon Camisso]

Lance F. Squire wrote:
> Alex Beamish wrote:
>> The classic tool for doing this is sed .. but you could also use perl
>> -ie 's/Bad JS//' *.html
>>
> 
> So....
> 
> sed 's/Bad JS//' *html
> 
> Would that search recursively?

I prefer using a shell, so I'd use something like this:

for i in `grep "Bad JS" *.html -R -l`; do echo "Bad JS found in $i"; sed 
-i 's/Bad JS//' $i; done

To others on the list, what's the better way using grep/find? Seems like 
using grep recursively in this case accomplishes the same thing as 
grepping through find results.

Jamon
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