[clug] global string replacement

[Steven Hanley]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 04:23:39PM +1000, Adrian Blake wrote:
> I need to do a global string replacement on multiple files within a 
> directory
> 
> e.g. replace  KPushButton with QPushButton
> 
> with multiple occurrences per file on all files within a directory.
> 
> There must be a one line command, but what is it?

perl -i -pne 's/KPushButton/QPushButton/g' *

-i is inplace editing, e is execute, n is line at a time input, cant
remember p off the top of my head.

The * is assuming you run the command from the directory you want to do it
in and that you want to perform this on all files there.

using perl because overkill is just enough <g>

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