Re: tlug: Re: search & replace (was: Grep for subdirectories?)

[Scott Perlman <perlman@example.com>]

actually, just in the spirit of the subdirectories it should probably be 
find . -name '*.html' -e 'perl -pi.bak -e "s/match/replace/" {} ;'

(all that is is wrapping The provided perl witha find)

-Scott

Rex Walters did state upon Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 01:42:28PM +0900:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 12:34:00PM +0000, Darren Cook wrote:
> > 
> > I've a similar question: How do I do a search and replace operation on
> > files? I'm sure I've read/been told that you use grep to do this, but I
> > can't find any mention when I do man grep.
> > 
> > I've got about 200 HTML files which contain a double-width underline
> > (probably in shift-jis) in an IMG tag and it should be a single-width
> > underline.
> 
> If you can define the pattern match as a regular expression, perl is
> probably the best way to do this: 
> 
>     perl -pi.bak -e "s/match/replace/" *.html
> 
> Where "match" is the RE matching what you want, and "replace" is what
> you want to replace it with.  The "-pi.bak" options tell perl to save
> the original files with a .bak extension ("file47.html.bak") and to act
> as a sed/awk-like filter.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by a "double-width underline".  If you can't
> figure out a suitable regular expression, post some sample before &
> after lines.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Rex
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