APM: Modify in place and Argument list too long

Marc Majcher majcher at majcher.com
Mon Mar 17 13:03:06 CST 2003


Wayne Walker <wwalker at broadq.com>:
:
:ls | grep '\.html$' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/oldtext/newtext/g'

Yeah, do that.  It's faster than using "find".  Always forget...

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definitely set _something_ on fire.    -jay



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