On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 11:03, David wrote: > thanks Tony.... but the bit that is mostly tricking me is going through > the directory recursively to get to each file. I didn't mention the > recursive thing in my original post - there are several hundred files in > a directory tree ( a web site).
Use find, sideshow David! To find all regular files under /path/to/website and feed them as arguments to the perl snippet: find -xtype f /path/to/website | xargs perl -i -pe 's/foo.bar/bar.foo/g;s/\r/\n/g' I haven't tested that yet. Nor have I finished my morning caffeine hit. Your mileage will most likely vary. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
