--- scott lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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'
I assume you know you can use man to look up what find and xargs are
doing.
Perl's -p means loop through all the lines of an argument file as if it
had
while(<>) {
# your stuff here
print;
}
around it. -i means do an in-place edit, actually changing the file.
-e says to use the following quoted code as the "# your stuff here".
So: find looks up the file list, xargs passes it to perl in discreet
chunks, and perl edits the file contents with a s///.
NOTE: this is a quick and non-thorough response. Disclaimer assumed. =o)
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