Chetak Sasalu wrote:
>
> I have to search and replace 'foo' to 'bar' in all the files in a
> directory(has subdirectories).
> The files are about 40k in size.
>
> On the command line I would do it as,
> find ./mydir/ -type f -print | xargs perl -pi -e  's/foo/bar/'
>
> No backup of the original files required.I am brave.
>
> What is the most efficient way to implement this inside a perl program ?
> There are about 30 files to be processed.
> I went through  perldoc perlrun and saw the code.

  use strict;
  use warnings;

  local @ARGV = grep -f, <./mydir/*>;

  $^I = '';

  while (<>) {
    s/foo/bar/g;
    print;
  }

Rob



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