Mu... I have a quicker way, try this.
cat FileContainFileNames | xargs -n1 perl -pe "s/oldstring/newstring/g" -i Tor. Richard Fernandez wrote: > > I just had a situation where I needed to replace one string with another > string in 200 files. > This is what I came up with, but I know there has to be a better way. Below > is my code. > > "myfiles" contains a list of the files I need to scrub, one per line. > > -------8<-----------------8<----------------------- > #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w > use strict; > $|++; > > my @files = `cat myfiles` or die; > for (@files) { > > chomp; > push @ARGV, $_; > } > > $^I = ".bak"; # Got this from a previous message; thanks Peter! > while (<>) { > > s#/u01/app/webMethodsFCS#/u02/app/webMethodsFCSclone#g; > print; > > } > ---------8<------------------8<----------------------- > > Seems to me there should be a way to provide the filenames on the command > line > w/o having to read the list into an array first, but I tried using xargs > (this is unix) and a couple > of other things but couldn't figure it out. > > Thanks for the help! > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]