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smartboyathome

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Any way to do this with sed?

I would like to be able to pipe the output from locate and have sed modify the files locate finds. Is there anyway to do this?

tam1138

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Registered: 2007-09-10

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Re: Any way to do this with sed?

Depending on what exactly you want, this might do the trick:

locate foo | xargs sed -ie 's/asdfasdf/fdsafdsafdsa/'

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Any way to do this with sed?

Or you can use a for loop:

for f in $(locate foo); do sed -i 'whatever' ${f}; done

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mike_93

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Re: Any way to do this with sed?

Just out of interest, what happens if you don't end it with "done"?

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carlocci

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Registered: 2008-02-12

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Re: Any way to do this with sed?

No one can be told what would happen, you have to see it for yourself