script help

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Jack L. Stone <jacks at sage-american.com>wrote:

> Hello folks:
>
> No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities.
>
> I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line
> requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many
> different directories on a server with numerous domains. While I could
> handle the change using a single directory within my abilities, I'm unsure
> how to do a search and replace throughout the many domains and their
> directories. Don't want to mess up. Here's what I'm trying to do:
>
> # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year
> 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able
> to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>

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Adam Vande More