Re^2: Find and Replace text script?

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Re^3: Find and Replace text script? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 13, 2006 at 19:21 UTC
Yeah sure, apart from the prompting bit that's what the above does. You just 'cd' to the appropriate 'folder' in the terminal and run the above. /J\	[reply]
Re^4: Find and Replace text script? by bobafifi (Beadle) on Jul 13, 2006 at 19:58 UTC
`find . -name '*.html' \| xargs perl -pi -e 's/php\?/html/g'` When I run this I get a bunch of "Can't open" lines even though I'm in the folder directory. Any ideas? Thanks, -Bob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Find and Replace text script? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 13, 2006 at 20:02 UTC
You have spaces in your file and/or directory names and I claim my five pounds. Try `find . -name '*.html' -print0 \| xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/php\?/html/g'` [download] /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Find and Replace text script? by bobafifi (Beadle) on Jul 13, 2006 at 21:08 UTC
Re^3: Find and Replace text script? by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 13, 2006 at 19:20 UTC
Have you tried google or Super Search yet?	[reply]
Re^4: Find and Replace text script? by bobafifi (Beadle) on Jul 13, 2006 at 20:57 UTC
> Have you tried google or Super Search yet? Yes, thanks. I found this: `perl -p -i.bak -e 's/pattern1/pattern2/g' MysqlDump.sql` http://www.wellho.net/forum/Perl-Programming/replace-text-in-a-large-text-file.html Thanks, -Bob	[reply] [d/l]