[thelist] find and replace text in multiple files under Linux

[Dean Mah]

With Perl you can do:

   perl -pi~ -e 's/foo/bar/' [files]

from the command-line.  's/foo/bar/' is the Perl regexp substitution
operator.  A backup of the file should be saved as filename~.

Dean


On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:40:03PM -0500, Samir M. Nassar wrote:

> I have a 20+ page project and doing a find and replace on each page is
> tedious.
>
> So I come to thee o evoltian oracles in hope of findding a solution.
>
> Do you guys know of/have a script or binary that can do file and replace
> on multiple files?
>
>
> Samir M. Nassar