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Joe Habadas
Joe Habadas

Reputation: 628

Unix/Linux/FreeBSD Find Command with Perl Regex

I would like to swap out every instance of "/this/name/" with "/that/name/" (within the files of a directory) - I'm just not sure how.

Is there a good way of combining the two commands below (or something equivalent) to search/regex an entire directory of files recursively?

•    perl -pi -e "s/2f\x74\x68\x69\x73\x2f\x6e\x61\x6d\x65\x2f/\2f\x74\x68\x61\x74\x2f\x6e\x61\x6d\x65\x2f/g" /some/directory

•    find . -name "*"

The first Perl example works fine for an individual file, just not a bunch of them. The Find example is of course just an example. I've used these two previous questions as some reference:

[Find] Unix find: multiple file types

[Perl] RegEx within perl -pi -e

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1612

Answers (1)

janos
janos

Reputation: 124734

Sure, use the -exec flag of find

find /path -type f -exec perl -pi -e "..." {} \;

I added -type f because I think you want to execute this for files only.

Upvotes: 3

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