path changing problem

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

hi monks, I have a small programs at about 200 programas in a single folder. In each files i have to change the path form /171/ to /mmt/171/. Is it possible to done it with perl file handling. An suggestions regarding this. Thanks in advance.

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Re: path changing problem by apl (Monsignor) on Apr 01, 2008 at 12:12 UTC
Do you mean you wish to move all files from directory /171 to directory /mmt/171 ? Or do you mean you wish each program to be modified so that references to directory /171 are changed to directory /mmt/171? These are two very different questions. Or do you mean something else entirely?	[reply]
Re: path changing problem by lidden (Curate) on Apr 02, 2008 at 07:48 UTC
I think you want something like this: `perl -wi.bak -pe 's!/171/!/mmt/171/!' /path/to/dir/*` Delete .bak files when you have confirmed that it did what you wanted.	[reply] [d/l]