On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Nick Wilson wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
> could someone please help me solve the following problem?
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> I need to recursively find and replace a string in a whole bunch of dirs
> (a website). For example:
>
> change: http://my-testing-environment.com
> to: http://www.the-real-website.com
>
> I gues sed is the tool for this right? I've read the man page but I'm
> somewhat intimidated by it :-)
No, for this perl is the "best" tool ...
find . -type f | xargs perl -npi.orig -e 's#old#new#g;'
It's a lot more efficient as it can process multiple files per
forked process, and you actually put code in the expression there
(the -e part) that is applied to every line as the file is read
in, and then is written out again.
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