> I have two web sites with about 300 htm and php files. I wish > to make a change so tht the database connect string in all of > these files is changed for mysql_pconnect to mysql_connect. > Can perl do this and if so can anyone show me how? > > Ideally I would like to feed a script or command line with a > list of files using ls .
perl -pi -e "s/mysql_pconnect/mysql_connect/" list.htm of.php files.txt You may even try `cat ./public_html` to get the list. One thing you might want to try is replace the php files with perl ;p HTH DMuey > > Regards > > Peter Goggin > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]