At 11:50 PM 6/7/01 +0000, scott lutz wrote:
>I have a this fancy bit of recursive search and replace code that I picked
>up somewhere, but I would greatly appreciate it if one of the gurus could
>explain it in English for me:
>
>find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/<<your original text
>here>>/<<your new text here>>/g'
John already did a fine job of explaining this, but I wanted to add that it
is a great expression that I find myself using almost daily. You might
look at the man pages for find and xargs to learn more about what is
happening. You'll find a lot of cool things like other values for -type
(like 'd' for directory), other switches (like -name... modify the above to
catch files ending in .html with -name "*.html") and -exec and more.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Jeff
