[vox-tech] Using awk or perl to find and replace

Mitch Patenaude mrp at sonic.net
Wed Nov 24 10:20:53 PST 2004


On Nov 24, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Mitch Patenaude wrote:
> perl -pi.orig -e 's/h.(.*?).([Jj][Pp][Gg])/$1.h.$2/g;' *.html

oops.. that should be
   perl -pi.orig -e 's/h\.(.*?)\.([Jj][Pp][Gg])/$1.h.$2/g;' *.html

(forgot to escape the literal periods.  This is why my mom detests 
regex... it ends up looking an awful lot like old serial line noise. 
;-)

   -- Mitch



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