On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:29:44AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > For example, I want to replace "def fubar" with "def snafu" across 50 > files.
perl -p -i -e 's/def fubar/def snafu/g' * > I then want to close all the files that didn't have changes, so I > can investigate the changed files in more detail (yes, I'm refactoring). git diff If you are not using SCM (or git in particular), then you should be. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
