[thelist] Search & Replacer

Jim Puls jim at nondifferentiable.com
Fri Jan 10 22:05:01 CST 2003


There's a good tool for this, it's called "perl".
Seriously, if all you need is regex search-and-replace with simple
wildcarding, running a Perl one-liner from a decent command-line
environment should do the trick.

Check the man page (or the perldoc) for the -p, -i, and -e options.

On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 09:02  PM, Kevin W wrote:

> My personal site is a bunch of HTML files and it's getting a bit big.
> Does
> anyone have suggestions for a program or Perl script to search/replace
> through the files?  Preferably with regex and either a file-picker GUI
> or
> support for DOS (or similar) wildcards.
>
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