Thanks for the reply!
Yes that does seem to work well.
One issue I just realized. The files are split up in multiple subdirectories
how could I modify the script to go into each subdirectory and do the same?
Regards
Russ
On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:48 am, btt@nethouse.com wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:56:35AM -0400, Russ Wright wrote:
> > Hey all
> > I have a simple script to perform a find and replace for me. Currently
> > it looks for "<?" and replaces it with "<?php".
> >
> > for fl in *.php; do
> > mv $fl $fl.old
> > sed 's/<? /<?php /g' $fl.old > $fl
> > rm -f $fl.old
> > done
> >
> > Works pretty well.
> >
> > However I need to make it a little smarter. I need the script to find
> > any of the following "<? ", "<?=", "<?(carriage return)" and replace
> > it with <?php. However it must not replace "<?php" with "<?phpphp".
>
> This seems to work:
>
> $ perl -p -i'.orig' -e 's/\<\?[^\s]*(\s)/\<?php\1/g' *.php
>
> It wants to replace <? and anything after it including the first
> whitespace it finds with <?php and whatever whitespace it found. I
> think that should do it. It will make little backups of each file
> appending '.orig' to each one in case this thing runs amok :)
>
> Good luck!
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