Re: [Sheflug] replacing strings in multiple files.

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Richard Lowe writes:

 > 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' *

This isn't quite right - don't know why of course, but it appears to
make a backup everytime it handles a file - so every file to be
done gets backed up i-1 times!
ls ./ looks very pretty tho :-)

Baz.
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