Unix Tip: SEARCH AND EDIT IN ONE

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Unix Tip 3149 - September 20, 2009

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SEARCH AND EDIT IN ONE

Want to search all files for in the local directory for a string and then edit them in vi?

This will do it.

vi `grep -il "target" *.sql 2>/dev/null`

Search all files in a directory structure for a regular expression and edit with vi.

vi `find . -type f -name "*.sql" -print | (xargs grep -il "[a-z][a-z]*get" 2>/dev/null)`

It's a good idea to redirect stderr in case you come across files for which you don't have read permissions. The errors messages would be passed as arguments to vi.

This tip generously supported by: jkstill@bcbso.com

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