Re: [Sheflug] replacing strings in multiple files.

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

* Barrie Bremner (baz [at] barriebremner.com) wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> My scripting is a bit shakey, so I wonder if someone else can fix my
> problems again :-)
> 
> I've got a load of HTML files that have my email address in a mailto:
> link in the footer.
> 
> Is there an easy way (script preferably) that can grep out my old
> address string and replace it with the new one?
> 
> The closest thing I can think of is a combination of less | grep | sed
> | echo but I'm clueless when it comes to putting it together -
> especially at this time of night.
> 
> Help? :-)
> 

very very slightly tested (-i will make backups, but i suggest you so it
anway).

for i in *.html; do perl -wpi.bak -e 's/old email/new email/g' $i; done



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