> Has anyone used the posix "grep" command on MPE/iX to search for a string
> in a group of MPE files?  We're stumbling on the hfs/MPE file structure
> crossover.
>
> This is potentially very handy for bulk modification projects: we'd like
> grep to identify all the occurances of variables that need to change for
> Y2K source code conversion.
>
> Please reply also if there's a straight forward way to do this using
> common MPE tools.

I wrote a simple script which looks like

#! /bin/sh

# Name : /WEB/DOC/editchg

# Script to change one literal to another for more files
# written by Andreas Schmidt 17JAN95
# imported to HP3000 10FEB97

for file in $(ls -l /SYS/SCHMDA | cut -c64- )
   do
sed s/literal1/literal2/ $file > t
        mv t $file
   done

[/SYS/SCHMIDA is a MPE/iX group containing only "classical" files.]

This may give you an idea ... but you have to invoke the sh.

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Best regards, Andreas Schmidt
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