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

[Matthew Taylor]

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lateral thinking possibility : why not create a symlink (in lowercase 
assuming your real directory is in uppercase) to overcome this. [assumes 
a mixture of up/lowr case has not been used]

call me lazy.

[lazy] Mat.

theticus at excite.com wrote:

> Hi Everyone!
>
> Need your help!
>
> 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.
>
> 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. :-(
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Theticus..
>
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