[X-Unix] Help with BBEdit Grep find and replace

[Eric F Crist]

I forgot to mention, the sed example will create a backup of the files  
it's editing as <filename>.bak

HTH

On Jan 31, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> you can do this really easily with a short command in sed, provided  
> this text only appears in this one place.
>
> sed -i ".bak" s/W3SVC1823/W3SVC1822/g <filename>
>
> This will replace all instances for the first argument with the  
> second argument.  <filename> can contain wild cards, etc.
>
> If you need something more specific, just add text in both arguments  
> to make it unique.
>
> sed -i ".bak" s%ogFilePath2=file:///d:\Webtrendslogs\corvette 
> \e0182201\W3SVC1823\*.log%ogFilePath2=file:///d:\Webtrendslogs 
> \corvette\e0182201\W3SVC1822\*.log%g
>
> You'll note that I've changed the delimiter to a % instead of the /,  
> as I'm using the forward and backward slashes in the matched text.
>
> HTH
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I posted to this list long ago about some help with grep and I am  
>> coming back to the well one more time as the help was excellent  
>> last time.
>>
>> I have some report files that need to be updated and the second  
>> line needs to be changed to be similar to the first line:
>>
>> ServerName=Cobra
>> LogFilePath=file:///d:\webtrendslogs\cobra\E0182201\W3SVC1822\*.log
>> LogFileUsername=
>> LogFilePassword=
>> ServerName2=Corvette
>> LogFilePath2=file:///d:\Webtrendslogs\corvette 
>> \e0182201\W3SVC1823\*.log
>>
>> What I am looking for is the line that begins with LogFilePath2 to  
>> be made to be similar to the line that begins with LogFilePath. In  
>> the example above the only differences is the machine name (cobra/ 
>> corvette and the w3svc182x)
>>
>> I want the w3svc182x number to change but not the machine name.
>>
>> I will be using BBEdit for this (version 8.7.2 (260))
>>
>> Can anyone provide assistance for me?
>>
>> TIA
>> --
>> Nick Scalise
>> nickscalise at cox.net
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