[wellylug] perl recursive text search and replace

[Darryl Hamilton]

I don't think Perl can do that kind of thing in a one-liner, but I'm not 
exactly experienced with it, so I'm probably wrong.

I'd use a 'find -exec' set up to handle the sub directories

find . -name *.txt -type f -exec perl -w -pi -e "s/oldinfo/newinfo/g;" {} \;


Mark Signal wrote:
> I could use a little help here....
> 
> this will replace text within a nominated directory
> 
> perl -w -pi -e "s/oldinfo/newinfo/g;" targetdir/targetfile
> 
> how do I alter it to include all subdirectories?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Mark
> 
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