Hi - giving my perl a retry, I found some hints on a website to recursively replace text
perl -p -i -e 's/old\(.\)atext/new\1btext/g;' $( find ./ -name '*.html' -o -name '*.txt' ) this should replace "old-atext" with "new-btext" and "old+atext" with "new+btext" and similar occurrences in all the files from find. but from what I can tell, perl doesn't support the \1 for \(*\) symbols like sed does. What is the work around? // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 646-331-2027 <IXOYE>< Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
