Search And Replace Over File(s) With Perl
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Search And Replace Over File(s) With Perl
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Join For FreeA quick bit of Perl can come in handy if you have an old site to update that has no CMS, or something similar.
To change 'source' to 'destination' in all HTML files in the current directory:
perl -pi -e 's/source/destination/g' *.html
You could use this to update copyright notices, etc.. but bear in mind you need to stay with Perl/regex syntax, so escape those forward slashes, etc :)
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