Perl Search and Replace One-liner with xargs -0 - Bash Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 5155

at February 18, 2008 11:48 by ches

Updated Code

find . -name "*.html" -print0 | xargs -0 perl -p -i -e 's|\Qhttp://66.36.242.244/~olxhxlwq/\E|http://www.johnclarkprose.com/|g'

Revision: 5154

at February 15, 2008 14:02 by ches

Initial Code

find . -name "*.html" -print0 | xargs -0 perl -p -i -e 's|\Qhttp://66.36.242.244/~olxhxlwq/\E|\Qhttp://www.johnclarkprose.com/\E|g'

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Initial Description

\Q...\E perl quoting means no ugly escaping in the regex. find's -print0 with xargs -0 is the secret to handling files with spaces in their names.

Initial Title

Perl Search and Replace One-liner with xargs -0

Initial Tags

regex, Bash, replace, perl

Initial Language

Bash