From: J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search across linebreaks
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:43:22 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kfqqa9$jej$3@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.20189.1361106838.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Sunday, February 17th, 2013, at 08:13:52h -0500,
Jude DaShiell suggested:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> I'm going to need to do a large scale search-and-replace on a series of
>> text files, using a sort of dictionary or hash-table of search terms and
>> their replacement.
...
>>
> Think sed ...
For what is required, sed is not going to be adequate.
awk at the very minimum, and preferably perl, or for those
who are object oriented, python, or maybe ruby.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-17 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-17 7:43 search across linebreaks Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-17 13:13 ` Jude DaShiell
[not found] ` <mailman.20189.1361106838.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-17 14:43 ` J G Miller [this message]
2013-02-17 15:52 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-18 3:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-18 4:01 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-18 6:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-17 17:05 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-02-18 13:09 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-02-19 1:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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