Re: [SLE] request, sed or perl script for global replacement

6 Dec 2004


      On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:34:34PM -0500 or thereabouts, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
...
I have a large list of photographs taken with an incorrect date, year,
set on the camera and would like to change to the correct date.  I
need to search and replace 2002: to 2004: in jpg and orf files.  The
string appears as text in both file types.
Patrick,

you can do it several ways (typical Linux), a small shell script, similar
to:

#!/bin/sh

for I in *
do
  echo $i
  mv $i `basename $i`.bak
done


Or in perl (and create a backup)

perl -p -i.bak -e '2000/2004/g' *.jpg (or whatever)

Untested, but should work (might want to back them up first)  

However, the old files from the script should be saved as a backup as
2000.jpg.bak but it is a good idea to back them up manually first. <g> 
-- 
Gary