APM: Modify in place and Argument list too long

[Marc Majcher]

dbii at mudpuddle.com (David Bluestein II):

:I'm doing a perl modify in place for a directory full of html files, yet I
:have several directories which have too many files for this:
:
:bash# perl -pi -e 's/oldtext/newtext/g' *html
:bash: /bin/perl: Argument list too long

Use find.  Something along the lines of:

find /path/to/dir -name "*html" -exec perl -pi -e 's/oldtext/newtext/g' {} \;

Works slightly differently on different systems.  Consult your man.

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