[plug] Find and Replace in multiple files

[Harry McNally]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:16:17 +0800 Harry McNally <harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au> wrote:

> 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' *

Quiet Sunday so I tested it myself. Before anyone beats me to it,
yep, it's broken. *slaps forehead, eats iced donut*

Now, -this- should work .. FLW

perl -pi -e 's/!\*\*\*/!\*-/g' *

Have a look at the -i switch here to understand why:
 
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/pl-opt.html

cu
Harry

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