Re: Command line search and replace

[Joachim Ostwald <joachim.ostwald@isst.fhg.de>]

csj wrote:
> Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? 
> Something along the lines of:
> 
> replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process
> 
> I find it a bit of a hassle to keep 100+ files open just to change an 
> ".html" to an ".htm." Note however that I intend to use the tool on 
> other text files besides runaway web pages, such as processing a list 
> of files to feed to tar.
> 
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I like the perl solution, because it offers "in-place" editing. Try
something like that:

  perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g;' *

If you want to preserve a backup you should use something like

  perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/g;' *

See perlrun(1) for details.

joachim