[lug] simple text editing problem

[Tkil]

>>>>> "MD" == Michael Deck <deckm at cleansoft.com> writes:

MD> Have you considered sed? What I do is to write a little sed script like 
MD>   s/TextToReplace/Replacement/g 
MD>   s/OtherTextReplace/OtherReplacement/g 

MD> Then I created a shell script "sedexec" 

MD>   #!/bin/bash
MD>   echo ${1}
MD>   cp ${1} ${1}.orig
MD>   sed -f ~/sedscript ${1}.orig > ${1}

MD> That way if something goes wrong I have the original file. 

MD> Finally 

MD>   find . -name 'filter' -exec ./sedexec {} \;

MD> man sed and man find for details. 

perl has some of this stuff built-in, especially the "-i" flag:

   find . -name '*.whatever' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i~ -plwe 's/foo/bar/g'

But note that this doesn't offer the "interactive" replacement that
the original poster requested...

t.