From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-04-04T01:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: search a file and replace text

On 03.04.2007 17:47, phil.swenson@gmail.com wrote:
> I need to search a specific xml file in a directory, look for:
> 
> <port system-property="tangosol.coherence.clusterport">30890</port>
> 
> and if the port 30890 is still there replace it with a different
> integer.
> 
> I know of several ways to do this (like open the file, iterate the
> lines until I find the integer, do a gsub! on on the integer).  But it
> seems like there might be a better way to do it.  Is there a search
> and replace API I don't know about?

Look for ruby -pi.bak -e 'gsub ...'

	robert