Cool. That's way better than using sed. I wish I'd known this at
my last job.
-Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Goggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:08 AM
To: Bakken, Luke; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Use of Perl for global changes
Thanks, that worked perfectly.
Regards
Peter Goggin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bakken, Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter Goggin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:06 AM
Subject: RE: Use of Perl for global changes
> cd /whatever dir
> perl -i.bak -pe's/\bmysql_pconnect\b/mysql_connect/g' *
>
> If everything is OK, delete the *.bak files.
> Luke
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Goggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:08 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Use of Perl for global changes
> >
> >
> > I have two web sites with about 300 htm and php files. I wish
> > to make a change so tht the database connect string in all of
> > these files is changed for mysql_pconnect to mysql_connect.
> > Can perl do this and if so can anyone show me how?
> >
> > Ideally I would like to feed a script or command line with a
> > list of files using ls .
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Peter Goggin
> >
>
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