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Re: search and replace tool
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: 'cygwin-list' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:55:26 -0800
- Subject: Re: search and replace tool
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <BAY12-DAV60bvKoq4bY000378bd@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Rafael Kitover wrote:
>
> Not really cygwin specific, you can do something like:
>
> perl -pi -e 's/old text/new text/' `find /where -name '*.txt'`
>
> note those are backticks surrounding the find.
>
> Use -pi.bak to make backup files in case you screw up. You will of course need
> to know how to use regular expressions (see man perlretut). If you need to do
> multiline replaces, you should probably write a script, or use some other
> solution.
And if you're expecting a LOT of files and/or files with odd characters
(e.g. space, quote) in their filenames, try this variant:
find /where -name \*.txt -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pe 's/old/new/`
Brian
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