Isn't the exec argument workable?
What about
find /path/to/dir/ -name '*.html' \
-exec "perl -pi -e 's[/FOO/][/Bar/Foo/Moo]g' \"{}\""\;
Just pondering the uses of xargs .....
Personally, I use zsh which has recursive globbing built in:
cd /path/to/dir
perl -pi -e 's%/FOO/%/Bar/Foo/Moo%g' **/*.html
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Gerry Skerbitz
gsker at tcfreenet.org
On Mon, 12 May 2003, John J. Trammell wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:30:03PM -0500, Michael Ableyev wrote:
> > How do I replace "/Foo/" with "/Bar/Foo/Moo/" in contents of files matching
> > a pattern (ex: *html) in a dir, recursively?
> >
>
> untested:
>
> find /path/to/dir/ -name '*.html' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's[/Foo/][/Bar/Foo/Moo/]g'
>
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