Re^2: Word Replacing

hmmm .. ok .. but if i want that it will search, check and replace all words in all files in a folder? look, i have for example about 1000 TXT files, and there is a word Bartholome and i need to replace it for Richard - In ALL files in this folder ... Yes i know .. I do perl mostly for fun, but i need it now .. :(

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Re^3: Word Replacing by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on May 31, 2007 at 13:34 UTC
look, i have for example about 1000 TXT files, and there is a word Bartholome and i need to replace it for Richard Similar to what was already pointed out to you: `perl -spi -e 's/Bartholome/Richard/g' /path/to/folder/*` [download] Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Word Replacing by blazar (Canon) on May 31, 2007 at 13:32 UTC
hmmm .. ok .. but if i want that it will search, check and replace all words in all files in a folder? Use glob or File::Find (if you want to do that recursively) or one of its friendlier relatives.	[reply]