Re: Recursive File Substitution

..slightly different:

perl -pi.orig -e 's/\cM//g' `find . -type f`
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Re: Recursive File Substitution by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 12, 2002 at 13:24 UTC
That's not going to work if you have filenames with spaces in them. Piping it through `xargs -0` (and don't forget the `-print0` option for `find`) works better, although you will still have problems with filenames ending or beginning with a pipe symbol, beginning with a greater than or less than symbol, files named `-`, or files beginning or ending with whitespace. All due to the magic open (All hail magic open!). We can however do the substitution without a body: `find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 perl -0777lpwi.bak -015e' '` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Recursive File Substitution by jdavidboyd (Friar) on Jul 12, 2002 at 15:17 UTC
You mean that this little bitty one liner does everything that the huge program above does?	[reply]