On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:49:12PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:24:36AM +1000, Tony Green wrote:
> > * This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy said:
> > > I want to replace every instance of 'gzip' occuring in a source tree with
> > > bzip2. This is how I did it:
> *bash hack snipped*
> >
> > perl -i -pe 's/gzip/bzip2/g' *
> Halfway there, but I need to recurse subdirs, which this command doesn't
> do.. The challenge is still open, and I'll put up a free beverage to the
> best reply; bonus points for niftiness, obfuscation, or obscure languages.
> Two beers if anybody does it in nqc before me..
ahh easy :)
find . -type f -exec perl -i -pe 's/gzip/bzip2/g' {} \;
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