need help with script and sed

[Frank Laszlo]

Jim Pazarena wrote:

> I would like to traverse my /users/home tree searching
> for all regular files and change any lines which read:
>   "/cgi-bin/Count.cgi ..." to:
>   "http://counter.qcislands.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi ..."
>
> I kinda think that a 'find' with an -exec of 'sed' would do
> it but I'm not sure, and even if it were, I'm not sure of
> the syntax.
>
> Could someone help me please?
>
> Thanks!
> Jim
>

for i in `find /users/home -type f`; do
    sed -i '' 
"s|/cgi-bin/Count.cgi|http://counter.qcislands.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi|g" $i
done

This should do the trick.

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo