This is what I'm tying to do, replace strcpy with strlcpy syntax for every instance of strcpy within a C file.

Currently, this is what I have in Sed, but it doesn't work (not sure on the regular expressions).

sed 's/strcpy($destination,$source);/strlcpy($destination,$source,strlen($destination);/g' test1.dat

I'm stuck on how I make it process every instance of strcpy. The variables are above... I think I need a regular expression, just not sure on its form.

If anyone can tell me how to do this in Awk, Perl, Vi, Sed or any other unix command line tool... please let me know.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Sam

sed 's/strcpy($destination,$source);/strlcpy($destination,$source,strlen($destination);/g' test1.dat

In perl, a correct way to do this would be:
$file =~ s/strcpy\((.*?),(.*?)\)/strlcpy\($1, $2, strlen\($2\)\)/g;

-SN

$file =~ s/strcpy\((.*?),(.*?)\)/strlcpy\($1, $2, strlen\($1\)\)/g;

Same as SN's code... just replaced the last $2 with a $1, to have the 1st argument of the function call, be the argument of the strlen function.

IR

Whoops...Thanks IR. Good catch.
-SN

Thank you both. It works great! :)