Re: Search --> Replace on Unix

In article <20010906163445-r01010800-a3e28827-0860-0108@192.168.0.2>, 
dowda@coraconnection.com (David Gilden) wrote:

> perl -e 'foreach $file (glob("*")) {grep '../forum_idx.pl' '../cgi-bin/forum_idx.pl');}'

you just want to go through each file and replace those instances?

    perl -pi.old -e "s|../forum_idx.pl|../cgi-bin/forum_idx.pl|g" *

see the perlrun manpage for details on all of the switches.

    http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlrun.html

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• Search --> Replace on Unix by David Gilden
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