Comments on: Easy Search and Replace in Multiple Files on Linux Command Line

By: Matthew Lanham

Matthew Lanham — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:29:46 +0000

Useful command line info for find & replace http://bit.ly/ddzeQo

Dave Drager — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:27:20 +0000

Post Update: Single line search/replace in multiple files, 100% more perl! http://su.pr/1S9lWS

Dave — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:18:21 +0000

@btr: That is extremely helpful, thank you! Will update post.

btr — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:04:50 +0000

Perl provides a really nice one-line for this kind of thing:

perl -p -i -e ’s///g’ *

It also provides the option of creating a backup of each file changed:

perl -p -i.bak -e ’s///g’ *

mnemonic: PIE (“easy as pie”, etc.)
google “perl pie” and you’ll get lots of info for other uses of this technique.

nobu — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:16:44 +0000

Very useful, thks from Spain!!

max — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:54:28 +0000

Awesome! so helpful. thanks

tom howard — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:57:45 +0000

RT @ddrager New blog post: Easy Search and Replace in Multiple Files on Linux Command Line http://bit.ly/AR8vZ

Dave Drager — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:13:51 +0000

New blog post: Easy Search and Replace in Multiple Files on Linux Command Line http://bit.ly/AR8vZ