Thanks all On 10/1/08, Chris Geldenhuis <chris.gelden at iafrica.com> wrote: > > MHR wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Chris Geldenhuis > > <chris.gelden at iafrica.com> wrote: > > > > > > > How about: > > > > > > find <startdir> -exec sed "s/10.5.1.10/127.128.1.10/" \{\} \; > > > > > > > > > > > > > First, the '\' characters are unnecessary and confusing, except the > > one that precedes the semi-colon. > > > > Second, that won't work. Sed does not perform on files in place - its > > output is sent to stdout unless it is redirected, and you can't > > redirect it back to the original file. To do something this way, > > you'd need a script that replaced the input file and used 'sed' to > > generate the new one (and then the script would have to rename it). > > > > mhr > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > Apologies I should have included the -i switch for sed to modify file in place. > > ChrisG > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >