The below is renaming the files, where I believe Ryan want's strings
inside the files modified. For that do something like this:
find . -name "*.txt" -name "*.html" | xargs perl -pi -e "s/foo/bar/g"
Bryan
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:26, Gary Thornock wrote:
> find . -type f -name "*.txt" -name "*.html" | xargs plrename "s/foo/bar/g;"
>
> where plrename is the following script (I keep mine in /usr/local/bin):
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # rename -- Larry's Filename Fixer
>
> $op = shift or die "Usage: rename exper [files]\n";
> chomp(@ARGV = <STDIN>) unless @ARGV;
> for (@ARGV) {
> $was = $_;
> eval $op;
> die $@ if $@;
> rename ($was, $_) unless $was eq $_;
> }
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Ryan Byrd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 15:16
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [uug] search and replace
>
>
> I've asked this before, but I forgot the answer
>
> On my redhat box, I need to search through a bunch of directories (nested) in my
> webroot that contain many different kinds of files.
>
> Inside all the .txt and .html files I need to replace the word "foo" with "bar"
>
> Anybody got a nifty command line creation for that task?
>
> TIA,
>
> Ryan
>
>
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