[plug] Find and Replace in multiple files

[Harry McNally]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:33:08 +0800 Weirdo <linuxalien at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> He would have an input string "!***" and a replace string "!*->"
> It needs to be ether a shell command or a script where the input and 
> replace strings are set at the top or somewhere easy to find.
> Thanks
> Tim

Saturday brain fade meant I needed to google:
perl one-liner "search and replace"
gave:
http://forums.devshed.com/archive/6/2003/02/2/51863

so you can do this:

perl -pe 's/!\*\*\*/!\*-/g' *

Try it in a temporary directory on a test file, Tim.

All the best
Harry

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