On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 03:08:15PM -0500, Gerald Skerbitz wrote: > 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 ..... > Yeah, I've always hated -exec. Thanks for reminding me why. :-) > Personally, I use zsh which has recursive globbing built in: > cd /path/to/dir > perl -pi -e 's%/FOO/%/Bar/Foo/Moo%g' **/*.html > Sweet. -- munged at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list