[oclug] searching archives and substituting strings

Rod Giffin rod at giffinscientific.com
Fri Jan 23 17:15:34 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:00, Bob Lockie wrote:
> I've asked this before but I couldn't find the answer in the oclug 
> archives so I must have searched incorrectly.
> I asked about using 'tr' to substitute a string in a file but 'tr' is 
> not even the corrent command.
> I usually keep answers around but I guess I didn't file the answer that 
> time.
> I have to do it again, maybe this doesn't search the archives 
> 'tr+www.oclug.on.ca' on www.google.ca?

Your syntax is wrong.

try: 

" tr " site:www.oclug.on.ca
or tr text replace site:www.oclug.on.ca

That will search google's index for both (related) threads that we've
had on the topic.

Rod.
 




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