On Thu, 9 December, 2004 18:50, antenneX said: > No, I want to interrogate several hundred thousand files throughout > several thousand directories to find/replace a single string within > each > file found. The string may appear more than once in a file.
Try the following (make sure you have a backup first ;)) perl -pi -e 's/STRING_TO_FIND/STRING_TO_REPLACE_WITH/g' filename e.g. to replace all instances of foo with bar in a file called test you'd do: perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' test You'd need to write a shell script to recursively run this on in each subdirectory. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
