Re: [Sheflug] replacing strings in multiple files.

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

* Richard Lowe (richlowe [at] btinternet.com) wrote:
> * 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
> 
> 

I dont know how that loop crept in there, I blame the fact its late.

perl -wpi.bak -e 's/old email/new email/g' *



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