edit multiple files under multiple directories/folders

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 03:03:59 UTC 2010


On 27/11/10 03:42 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my home folder I have 6 tomcat directories under
> /home/kaushal/tomcat0......6
>
> Under each of these tomcats there are sub folder conf and inside these conf
> there is a file by the name server.xml so for example I have
> tomcat0,tomcat1,tomcat2,tomcat3,tomcat4,tomcat5 so i need to edit server.xml
> and set port numbers for tomcat0 to 8080 tomcat1 to 8081 and similarly for
> others,the other way is to go to individual directory and do it
>
> Please suggest/guide
>

$ emacs ~/tomcat{0..6}/conf/server.xml &

The above should bring up emacs with a buffer showing the last file in 
the list, and another buffer listing all the other buffers visiting the 
other server.xml files. Of course if you prefer some other editor you 
can use that instead of emacs.

> Thanks and Regards
>

Happy hacking.

> Kaushal
>
>


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