How To Batch Search and Replace Multiple Files Using PERL
erics, October 16th, 2014 Using PERL, we can easily do a search and replace across multiple files. perl -pi -w -e ‘s/SEARCH_FOR/REPLACE_WITH/g;’ FILE_LIST The following example will replace all occurrences of “hello” with “goodbye” inside files ending with .txt:
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perl -pi -w -e 's/hello/goodbye/g;' *.txt |
To handle special characters, use the hex value. For example, to convert MS web files that use control characters: […]
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