[clug] global string replacement

[Peter Barker]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, 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?

Nonono, not "a" "more than one"

find . -type f | xargs perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g'

Or there-abouts. I actually wrote a script "slaughter.pl" dto do something
similar a long time ago. Still use it every now and then.

> Adrian

Yours,
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