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From: Thomas S. Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: command-line way to search contents of files
Greetings gurus,
I've worked with perl somewhat for the past year, but never via the
command line. I'd like to know if
check man perlrun
im not sure what you're after, if it's just grep i'd suggest
find . -type f -exec grep foo {} \;
if you wanna do something about foo
find . -type f -exec perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' {} \;
/Jon
"Thomas S. Dixon" wrote:
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> Greetings gurus,
> I've worked with perl somewhat for
Greetings gurus,
I've worked with perl somewhat for the past year, but never via the
command line. I'd like to know if there's a short command-line way to
search a given directory (recursively) for files containing a certain
text string. I would think this would be some combination of a loop an