[H-GEN] Text Search and Replace @ shell prompt

[Greg Black]

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| I've been given html files which were created in Windows and of course, they includes mixtures of lower and upper case for folder names.
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| But when on UNIX/Linux server, all those folders didn't come up coz html is looking for upper/lower case folder name within the file. Some files work if they match the name of the folder name. If one or two files, I would have gone through patiently in "vi" and change them but I have over 1000+ files. :-(
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| What I want is, is there a shell prompt command that I can give search pattern and replace them within the given entire folder? I heard that "awk" would do but I'm not up to that yet.

First, please don't use such long lines -- 70 characters is
plenty long enough.  Second, please don't send messages in
multipart/alternative -- plain text is the thing to use.

As for the question, yes there are many tools that will do what
you want.

If you describe the actual task a little more clearly, somebody
will probably give you a simple solution using ed or one of the
heavyweight tools like Perl.

Greg

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