[wellylug] perl recursive text search and replace

[andrej at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Mark Signal <mark at databackup.co.nz>:

> this will replace text within a nominated directory
> 
> perl -w -pi -e "s/oldinfo/newinfo/g;" targetdir/targetfile
I don't know of a perl-way of doing this, but I'd do
find <targetdir/targetfile> -exec perl -w -pi -e "s/oldinfo/newinfo/g;"  {} \;

<> = (appropriate options for file and/or dir)


Cheers,
Andrej