[nflug] for the crafty scripter

[Cyber Source]

I haven't had a chance to try Frank's suggestion but this is exactly 
what I was looking for, good one Jesse,
As far as the long post, sorry but I felt it needed full explanation. I 
didn't want to have a bunch of emails going back and forth just trying 
to understand what it is I wanted done and why.

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> Cyber Source wrote:
>> Aside from the skel issue, I love it. And as far as I know, it's 
>> probably something that's in my existing home that's pissing it off, 
>> because it works fine with until I get to a certain point of 
>> tweakage, in other words, if I don't copy over all my hidden stuff, 
>> it's fine. I can hardly blame a distro or a release for that. If I 
>> could find a decent doc on skel, I could possibly figure it out. All 
>> other issues where just getting used to minor differences, and of 
>> course it's early on, the updates are coming out daily.
>>>
>>> [...much deleted for brevity...]
>>>
>>> I tried 7.1 and did not care for it too much. After working with it for
>>> some time, I went back to 6.06.1 desktop for desktop (and some 
>>> server) use
>>> and 6.06.1 Server for some server use (backup DNS and mail services).
>>>
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> After finally reading that whole thing I realized you only had a 
> simple question at the end. I used to do that on all the dumps 
> anyways. I also use it all the time when I'm doing celenza. If you do:
>
> sed -ie "s/peter/newuser/" *
>
> It should replace all the instances of peter with newuser in every 
> file. Will probably need to do ".*" at the end for the hidden files 
> though.
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