[problem]
You want to substitute a pattern in a number of files, making backups and modifying in place on the fly.
And you can do this in Perl – with a one liner! 🙂
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[solution]
An amazing bit of Perl and so quick!
This one liner will replace all occurrences of a pattern, with your replace and even create backups of files edited.
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[example]
You can even pass in a wildcard.
perl -pi'.bak' -e's/pattern/replace/g' filename
Here is a demo of replacing all occurrences of unix with UNIX, in all html files.
perl -pi'.bak' -e 's/unix/UNIX/g' *htm*
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[reference]
[tags]Perl infile pattern substitution, Perl Coding School[/tags]
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