Re: [Sheflug] replacing strings in multiple files.

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

* Barrie Bremner (baz [at] barriebremner.com) wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 

Yeah, it should be *.html, I thought there may be more than .html files
that needed changing, then I realised it could do silly things like
that :-).

I think I've been awake for like 50 hours now. Its starting to show :)

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