On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:42:40PM -0500, JupiterHost.Net wrote: > > >George Georgalis wrote: > >>In my perl notes I found this for recursive replace.... >> >>I want to replace all instances of oldstring with newstring in html >>files, ./ and below. >> >> perl -i -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g;' $( find ./ -name '*.html' ) >> >>I know how to script it up with sed, but I'm interested in why this >>one-liner is not working (does nothing, no error), best I can tell it >>should work. > >Does > find ./ -name '*.html' >by itself list the files you want? >if so try this: > perl -i -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g;' `find ./ -name '*.html'` >
well no, in fact this doesn't even work for the current directory perl -i -e "s/old/new/g;" *html is my perl broken? // George -- George Georgalis, Architect and administrator, Linux services. IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 5415 2738 61CF 6AE1 E9A7 9EF0 0186 503B 9831 1631 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
