Thanks, that worked perfectly. Regards Peter Goggin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bakken, Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Goggin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:06 AM Subject: RE: Use of Perl for global changes
> cd /whatever dir > perl -i.bak -pe's/\bmysql_pconnect\b/mysql_connect/g' * > > If everything is OK, delete the *.bak files. > Luke > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Goggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:08 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Use of Perl for global changes > > > > > > I have two web sites with about 300 htm and php files. I wish > > to make a change so tht the database connect string in all of > > these files is changed for mysql_pconnect to mysql_connect. > > Can perl do this and if so can anyone show me how? > > > > Ideally I would like to feed a script or command line with a > > list of files using ls . > > > > Regards > > > > Peter Goggin > > > > -- > 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]
