On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Marc Mutz wrote:
> Philips wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> > find -type f -iname '*.c' -exec perl -i~ -p -e 's/suxx/rulezz/ig' {} \;
> <snip>
>
> This is extremely slow, because it starts a new perl interpreter for
> each file. Better is
>
> find . -name '*.c' | xargs perl -pi\~ -e 's/suxx/rulezz/g;'
>
> You'll love xargs once you know it...
>
> Marc
>
Umm, many thanks!
Either way, it's a couple of orders of magnitude quicker than changing 100+
HTML docs by hand.... ;-)
This here Linux box is just so full of neat tricks..... :)
Chris
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