merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (08/17/90)
In article <1990Aug16.194644.14376@athena.mit.edu>, ramon@skye (Ramon F Herrera) writes: | | I have a question for those {sed, grep, awk, tr} wizards out there. | I'd like to change all the occurrences in a file of a line like this: | | #include "dira\dirb\incl.h" | | to | | #include "dira/dirb/incl.h" | | but only for the lines that begin with "#include". perl -pi~ -e 's#\\#/#g if /^#include/' file1.c file2.c file3.c ... Pretty darn simple with Perl. Even leaves you a backup. Just another Perl hacker, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/