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From: pckim@unisql.UUCP (Pyung-Chul Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: #define problem
Keywords: #define macro
Message-ID: <1368@unisql.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 15:22:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.051827.23428@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: pckim@unisql.UUCP (Pyung-Chul Kim)
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <1991Jun20.051827.23428@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> J-Beauchamp@uiuc.edu writes:
>I have many occurences of 'printf(' which I would like to replace with
>'fprintf(stderr,' in my C program.  Is there a way to do this #define?
>
>#define printf( fprintf(sterr,
>

Why don't you use a shell program like following:

% chngprintf * */* */*/* .... (specify all files you want to change)

% cat chngprintf
#!/bin/csh -f
 
foreach f ($argv)
	echo "Editing file: $f"
	ed $f << END > /dev/null
1,\$s/printf(/fprintf(stderr,/g
w
q
END
end

I hope it helps

-- 
Pyung-Chul Kim

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