Re: descending directories

or even:

find . -name "*.htm" -type file -exec perl -e 's/arse/tits/' {} \;

just to go even more off topic - your code, although an example, is kind of redunandant; using perl to use find to return a list for perl to use chmod on is unnecessary. all you really need to do is find . -type file -exec chmod 644 {} \; (but then that's nothing really to do with perl, other than how not to use it. :-)

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Re^2: descending directories by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 16, 2003 at 11:29 UTC
That will launch one Perl process per file - quite a waste of effort. `find . -name '.htm' -type f -print \| xargs perl -i -pe's/foo/bar/'` However, that will not work for files with newlines or spaces in their names due to the way `xargs` parses its input. On systems with the GNU renditions of these tools you should say this: `find . -name '.htm' -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 perl -i -pe's/foo/bar/'` You will still have problems with filenames that start with a less-than or greater-than sign, possibly in combination with a plus sign, and those which start or end with a pipe, due to Perl's magic open. For `chmod`ding, the same principle applies to the Anonymonk's proposition: `find . -name '.htm' -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod 644` Makeshifts last the longest.*	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: descending directories by Ea (Chaplain) on Jul 31, 2001 at 20:26 UTC
Ack! the space between `{} \;` is crucial, Damn! You get `usage: chmod [-fR] <absolute-mode> file ...` when you write `{}\;` . (Yes, I did try find first, but panic struck) Thnx	[reply] [d/l] [select]