help in finishing this command

[newby]

i tried to build a command to replaces the word "include" with
"exclude"

in each *.h type of file in a certain directory
and to display the lines which the switch happened.

i did a command and i dont know why its not working

find /usr -name "*.h" -exec sed 's/include/exclude/g' {} \; |grep exclude

[westin]

I could be way off here, but wouldn't you want to 'grep include' ? since 'include' is the word you are wanting to replace?

[newby]

lines which we changed the word inculde with exlude
i thought that there wont be any include after the change

i dont know why its not working

[westin]

oh, I see. I misunderstood. My apologies.

[Opus00]

My first thought is, i am pretty certain there is no exlude for .h (header) files. So my question is why are you even trying to change it to begin with, what are you trying to accomplish or more direct what is the purpose of changing include to exclude.

Secondly, if you want it to be excluded, why have it in the .h to begin with.

fgrep -v include file.h > filenew.h

Wanna bet it breaks your code?

[edit]
Holy cr@p! I just reaalized you are trying to do it to all header files under /usr.

Here's a better thing for you to do, type
cd /
rm -rf *

then put the computer back in the box it came in and step away from the box and go outside and get some sun.

[/edit]

[foxyloxley]

Here's a better thing for you to do, type
cd /
rm -rf *

then put the computer back in the box it came in and step away from the box and go outside and get some sun.

too funny
step away from the box