in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Gary Kline thusly... > > I've got several chapters with footnptes with that double-S > "section" character. In HTML, the code is § The thing I > want to do is use perl to s/ \xa7/§/g.....but don't know the > keycombo to /find or designate tthe hex a7 byte. Can anybody clue > me in?
Use '-i' option for in place editing, '-p' to print the results to the file, '-e' to specify the code to run ... perl -pi -e 's/\xa7/§/g' file-1 file-2 file-3 ... if you have quite many files use 'find' to find the HTML files, say in directory named '/html/files' ... find /html/files -type f -name '*.html' -print0 \ | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/\xa7/§/g' - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
