Re: Find/Replace in multiple source members

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Matt

Yes, the -i flag doesn't work in QShell - I've not tried it in PASE, IIRC.

The solution I found was a compound set of QShell commands that redirect 
output to a temporary file (not sure about members), then copy that back 
to the original.

I'm not at my work computer, so I don't have the details.

You can do multiple QShell commands by using a semi-colon separator or 
the like - again, check the docs.

Good luck - not sure any of this would work with members, but....
Vern

On 2/27/2018 3:29 PM, MWHopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I was looking into doing something in QShell, but I can't get it to
> overwrite the original member. I have this command:
>
> grep -l "Executive Plaza IV" * | xargs sed -e 's/Executive Plaza IV/10909
> McCormick Rd/g'
>
> This works fine, grep finds the source members in the current directory
> that have our old address ("Executive Plaza IV") somewhere in the source.
>
> My working directory is /qsys.lib/SOURCELIB.lib/SOURCEFILE.file
>
> grep -l "Executive Plaza IV" *
>
> Then the xargs, runs the sed command on each member which reads the source
> and changes every occurrence of 'Executive Plaza IV' to '10909 McCormick
> Rd', but it just outputs it to the screen. it appears that the -i flag in
> the IBMi version of sed is not valid - it is supposed to overwrite the
> original file, but I can't seem to figure out how to redirect the stdout
> back into the original member name.
>
> So almost....
>
> Matt Hopkins
> MFT/EDI/Web Services Project Leader
> Information Technology
> PDP Group, Inc.