[Ilugc] RE: ilugc Digest
- From: knutties@xxxxxxxxx (Natarajan K)
- Date: Wed Jul 13 14:19:31 2005
On 7/13/05, Ramkumar R <andyetitmoves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"recursive search a string inside folders & subfolders till the end & to
replace that string"
find <folder> -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ./replacefile s/<search
pattern>/<replacement>/
Perl has in built in place text replacement facility:
$ find <folder> -type f -print0 | \
xargs perl -pi -e 's/<find>/<replace>/g'
If you need a backup of the files with name .bak use
$ find <folder> -type f -print0 | \
xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/<find>/<replace>/g'
HTH,
Natarajan
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