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Re^2: One-line shell script for find and replace

by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 05, 2005 at 23:00 UTC ( [id://497775]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: One-line shell script for find and replace
in thread One-line shell script for find and replace

There's a chance here of the combined list of files overrunning the shell command line buffer. 
perl -MFile::Find -i -e 'find(sub{@ARGV=($_);s/find/replace/ while <>}
+,".")'

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Re^3: One-line shell script for find and replace
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 08, 2005 at 23:52 UTC

    Close, but you can do better.

    perl -MFile::Find -pi -e'BEGIN { find( sub { push @ARGV, $File::Find::
+name if /\.txt\z/i }, "." ) } s/find/replace/'

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    With File::Find::Rule you write it more nicely.

    perl -MFile::Find::Rule -pi -e'BEGIN { @ARGV = File::Find::Rule->name(
+ "*.txt" )->in( "." ) } s/find/replace/'

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    But in practice I’d use find -print0 | xargs -0 for this. Way too much work to do it in Perl.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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