hello all, I appreciate everyone that got me going in the right direction with a sed alternative. After some searching I even found a way to get it to search recursive and add an extension to the end IE .html or .php and it is working wonderfully. Now for the part I haven't gotten a grasp on yet the handling of special characters. The situation I'm dealing with right now is converting a string hostbyk.com//order to hostbyk.com/order in like 100+ html files. how would I do that with the following.
#!/bin/sh # Need some information from you echo "what directory do you wish to search in?" read dir echo"" echo "what extension?" read ext echo"" echo "what word or string are we looking for?" read old echo "" echo "what do you wish to replace it with" read new cd $dir perl -p -i -e 's/'$old/$new'/g' $(find . -name \*.$ext thank you, -- Jerry M. Howell II email admin: usalug.org sys admin: hostbyk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
