Re: [SLUG] Global Search and Replace

From: Ian C. Blenke (ian@blenke.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 16:39:35 EST


Paul M Foster wrote:

> Folks:
>
> Anyone know of a nifty tool which will do a global search and replace
> of text inside a bunch of files, all at once?

find / -type f -exec perl -pi -e 's/somestring/someotherstring/g' {} \;

or something more complex?

 - Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> <icblenke@nks.net> http://ian.blenke.com/

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