Replacing text for all files in a directory

[Mats Wichmann]

On 08 Aug 2001 09:18:10 +0200, Harald Kirsch
<kirschh at lionbioscience.com> wrote:


:Everyone, (even me) seems to be sure that this calls for something
:sh/sed/awk like. Nevertheless, I'll try a Python one.

I disagree.  sed is unabashedly line-based.  Making it replace
patterns that happen to break across a line is more work than it's
worth, in my opinion.

Don't forget the fileinput module for cases like this.



Mats Wichmann

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