[oclug] Search & Replace

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 07/07/04 Tobias Luetke said:

> I need to change the coding style in a relatively large scripting code base. 
> 
> I wrote up several regexp replace strings to do the operations i need
> but i'm at a loss for tools.
> 
> Is there a convenient tool ( or chain of tools ) to apply a regexp
> search & replace on a list of files ?

perl -pi -e 's/search/replace/' $(find files to replace)

Mike

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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
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