George Georgalis wrote:

In my perl notes I found this for recursive replace....

I want to replace all instances of oldstring with newstring in html
files, ./ and below.

 perl -i -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g;' $( find ./ -name '*.html' )

I know how to script it up with sed, but I'm interested in why this
one-liner is not working (does nothing, no error), best I can tell it
should work.

Does find ./ -name '*.html' by itself list the files you want? if so try this: perl -i -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g;' `find ./ -name '*.html'`

HTH :)
Lee.M - JupiterHost.Net

// George



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