From: Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to apply a list of regex replaces to multiple files?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:33:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871w2eukh6.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 091f39ab-89ac-438f-a878-464309c4a8f6@i18g2000prn.googlegroups.com
"michael.l" <michael.lommel@gmail.com> writes:
> I've browsed the messages here and have googled but don't see a clear
> solution yet. I have about 900 documents to which I need to apply a
> list of maybe 40 separate regex search and replaces. I would like to
> feed a list of the regex expressions and replacements to emacs and
> have it applied to a directory of the files. Any solutions? Keyboard
> macros don't seem like the right solution....
Emacs is an interactive editor, most of the time in order
to achieve some modification of a file, you need to interact
with it.
Have you considered simply using `find' and `sed' (or even
'perl') from the command line instead of an interactive
editor. They sound more like the right tool for the job.
Phil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 1:50 How to apply a list of regex replaces to multiple files? michael.l
2008-07-01 5:23 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-01 5:56 ` michael.l
2008-07-01 7:01 ` Tim X
2008-07-01 7:33 ` Phil Carmody [this message]
2008-07-01 8:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.14069.1214901523.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-01 15:09 ` michael.l
2008-07-01 17:39 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-07-02 8:20 ` Tim X
2008-08-01 8:38 ` David Combs
2008-07-01 23:25 ` Xah
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