[thelist] Search & Replacer

[Anderson Cummins]

Allready covered.

Try
1) cp -R dir_name backup_dir
2) perl -spi.bak -e 's/Old String/New String/gi' dir_name/*.html
All the old files are save with the .bak extension, you can remove them or
even skip
step 1 and work from your .bak files.

To recover
mv backup_dir dir_name or use perl to rename the files

You can fiddle with it but that's the gist.
(synthax may be a bit off but the man page is correct :-)
Thanks,
AC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Denis" <dave at davedenis.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Search & Replacer


> The problem with this though is that there is no undo.  Depending on how
> familiar the user is with crafting a regex this might be an important
thing.
>
> Dave
>
> Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Combine `find` (the *nix, not DOS version) with Perl's edit-in-place
> > flag and you're there. No GUI, of course, but that's a feature, not
> > a bug :-)
> >
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> >
> >
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