Comments on: Linux: How do I mass find and replace text in files under linux using perl?

By: zone

zone — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:17:00 +0000

great article..

By: Search and replace text in multiple files. « Ajo Paul

Search and replace text in multiple files. « Ajo Paul — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:26:39 +0000

[...] this could be done through an sed script , but found a better one using perl from here. export OLD_TEXT=’

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:28:05 +0000

You would escape them: \” and \/ \\ \*

so putting \ in front should do the trick.

By: TDSii

TDSii — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:01:43 +0000

how is it possible to replace text with another that contains ” and / \ *

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:42:13 +0000

Thanks to you, I was able to clean up a big mistake one of my rookie developers made in a matter of seconds.
Thanks a ton.

By: Balwinder Kumar

Balwinder Kumar — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:06:39 +0000

Excellent Help!!!Thanks a lot.

By: sufehmi

sufehmi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:49:29 +0000

THANK YOU !!

My friend’s website was hacked and then its files were infested with malicious links.
It’s wordpress – there seems to be a mass hack on websites running old version of wordpress.

It would take HOURS to clean up those bloody links.

With the trick mentioned here, it took only several seconds. Awesome.

Thanks again !

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:55:35 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:05:00 +0000

Great post!

By: Jan klaassen

Jan klaassen — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:11:10 +0000

Using google, i found several solutions for this problem. But this one was the shortest, so I used it and it worked!

By: Mean Dean

Mean Dean — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:12:43 +0000

Here’s a time saver:

find /www_root -name “*.php” | …

if you’re already in the desired path:

ls -1 *.php |

By: machiner

machiner — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:33:43 +0000

Handy perl bits like this rule. I, myself, am an ignorant schnub and rely on folks like you to share your hard-earned knowledge.

Thanks for it. I found it on Google quickly with the following search phrase:

“find and replace text in directory +linux”

Thanks,

machiner