On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Gary Thornock wrote:

> find . -type f -name "*.txt" -name "*.html" | xargs plrename "s/foo/bar/g;"
>
> where plrename is the following script (I keep mine in /usr/local/bin):
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # rename -- Larry's Filename Fixer

I think he's looking for a search/replace inside the actual file, not a
renaming function, i.e.

> Inside all the .txt and .html files I need to replace the word "foo"
> with "bar"

I remember UltraEdit had a function like this, but that's Windoze ... you
could replace "Larry's Filename Fixer" with a s/foo/bar/g perl script, but
there's got to be an easier way to do it.

  ~ ross


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