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From: Grant Jacobs
Subject: Changing source code
Date: 9 Mar 2006, 00:05:58

If you're on Unix/Linux/OS X et al, you could use sed, e.g.

more file | sed 's|Type foo = Object (bar)|Type Tfoo = Class (Tbar)|' > newfile

You'll need to nest this in a loop.

In csh it'd be something like:

   foreach file (*.pas)
     ...
   end

I think in bash you'd be after:

   for file in *.pas
   do
     ...
   done

Hope this is enough to get you started -- good luck.

I have my own small script to deal with filename expansion which 
avoids shell limits on the number of parameters, etc., which is why I 
forget exactly how the filename expansion loop things work.


Grant

>Hi
>
>This isn't strictly a GPC question, but it is related, so I'll ask
>anyway :|
>
>Is there an easy way to change a string in all source files to another
>string?
>
>For example, if I want to change all occurrences of "Type foo = Object
>(bar)" to "Type Tfoo = Class (Tbar)" in all ".pas" and ".pp" files in a
>directory tree, is there an easy way to do it, using standard GNU
>tools? I could of course write a program to do it, but I figured there
>could be an easier way. Thanks.
>
>Best regards, The Chief
>--------
>Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)
>web:  http://www.greatchief.plus.com/

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