Rafael Kitover wrote: > > Not really cygwin specific, you can do something like: > > perl -pi -e 's/old text/new text/' `find /where -name '*.txt'` > > note those are backticks surrounding the find. > > Use -pi.bak to make backup files in case you screw up. You will of course need > to know how to use regular expressions (see man perlretut). If you need to do > multiline replaces, you should probably write a script, or use some other > solution.
And if you're expecting a LOT of files and/or files with odd characters (e.g. space, quote) in their filenames, try this variant: find /where -name \*.txt -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pe 's/old/new/` Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
