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

[Nick Scalise]

Thanks for this help.

The thing is, I have about 1300 files to change and each 'W3SVC1822'  
field is different.

How would I modify the script below to do that?


On Jan 31, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> 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
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