sed – is useful to find and replace text in single multiple files.
- Replacing foo with foo_bar in a single file.
sed -i 's/foo/foo_bar/g' somefile.module - -i = tell sed to edit the file(s)
- s = substitute the following text
- foo = what you want to substitute
- foo_bar = what you want to replace
- g = global, match all occurrences in the line
sed -i 's/foo/foo_bar/g' *.module cvs diff -up > yourpatchfile.patch to create a patch.sed is available on the Win32 platform by installing GNU utilities for Win32