Bad advice.

File::Find has been part of the core Perl distribution forever. If it isn't available on your host, it means their installation of Perl is incomplete. Complain to them and if they don't react, move to somewhere else. There is no excuse for not offering File::Find.

I feed in a ls -laR listing
How robust is your ls parsing pattern? And why not use find for the job of find? Something like the following does all you want, with minimal coding of your own. $ file . -type f -name '*.shtml' -print0 | xargs -0 ./myscript.pl Iterate over @ARGV using the diamond operator; it might even suffice to do something like $ file . -type f -name '*.shtml' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i.old -pe's!/main\.php\?page=!/id=!g' See perldoc perlrun. Use the tools intended for your job to do your job, don't reinvent round wheels.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: Massive File Editing by Aristotle
in thread Massive File Editing by Kage

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