On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:48:03PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > A couple years ago I ran across a sed like program > that will recursively descend through a tree and apply > specified edits in place. I have searched my notes, > gone through the deb available and have not been able > to find it. Might just have been something on > SourceForge...
I'd use find . -type f | xargs perl -pi -e 'someregularexpression' so, for example, to change all foo to bar: find . -type f | xargs perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g;' Hope that helps, Cheers, -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]