search and replace recursive directories modifier inquiry

stretch has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hail,
I want the following to search thru recursive subdirectories for *.html files.

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   perl -pi.old -e "s|../forum_idx.pl|../cgi-bin/forum_idx.pl|g" *.htm
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What modifier do I use to search subdirectories?
thanks, Stretch

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Re: search and replace recursive directories modifier inquiry by penguinfuz (Pilgrim) on Oct 26, 2002 at 00:01 UTC
I agree with Enlil, you really should have a look at File::Find, but a quick oneliner (on a Unix/Linux machine) could be: `find . -name "*.html" \| xargs perl -pi -e s/oldstring/newstring/g` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: search and replace recursive directories modifier inquiry by Enlil (Parson) on Oct 25, 2002 at 22:27 UTC
If you are on a unix system you might try a combo of find, xargs and your one liner. I would look into using the File::Find module and writing a slightly longer script instead of a one liner. -enlil	[reply]