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  From: Andrew Lord <andrewlord@internode.on.net>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:40:32 +1030

Re: Search & Replace

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:05 pm, you wrote:
> Andrew Lord wrote:
> >> How about (untested):?
> >>
> >> find . --exec perl -pi 's/targetText/replacementText/g' {} \;
> >
> > Well I tried this as you suggested and the response result was:
> >
> > find: invalid predicate `-pi'
>
> Well, Ant did say it was untested.  It should be "-exec", not "--exec".

Yes, no worries. I did try that too.  Ant's suggestion is as appreciated as 
all suggestions I've received.  :) Thanks again Ant.

PS I've now found that Ant's script works on all text type files, recursively, 
if the -e option is included and -exec is used.

ex.
find . -exec perl -pi -e 's/this/that/g' {} \;


Cheers,

Andrew Lord

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