On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:02:03AM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: >George Georgalis wrote: >>On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:42:40PM -0500, JupiterHost.Net wrote: >> >>> >>>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'` >>> >> >> >>well no, in fact this doesn't even work for the current directory >> >> perl -i -e "s/old/new/g;" *html >> >>is my perl broken? > >Try pie: > >perl -p -i -e "s/old/new/g" *html
oh, that's easy! works perfect, thanks. // George -- George Georgalis, Architect and administrator, Linux services. IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 5415 2738 61CF 6AE1 E9A7 9EF0 0186 503B 9831 1631 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
