On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Jeremy Smyth wrote:
> > what I'm trying to do is replace all occurances of
> > AAA with BBB
> > in all the html documents under a certain directory...
>> perl -i.bak -p -e "s/AAA/BBB/g" *.html
>> will copy files to *.html.bak , and replace all occurrences of AAA with
> BBB. You could stick an "i" in the options (with the g above) to ignore
> case.
>> > I think you can do this with sed, find, grep etc but don't
>> sed has some similar way of doing it - I think it's pretty much the same.
>> /jer
That worked thanks everybody...
tom.
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