How to mass Search & Replace in text files.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Alex Beamish wrote:

> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Lance F. Squire <lance-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > One of the sites on my server has been infected with some malicious Java
> > Script.
> >
> > I can locate all the files with:
> >
> > grep "Bad JS" `find . -name "*.html"`
> >
> > Is there a way to modify this to replace the "Bad JS" with ""?
> >
> > Or a find variant?
>
> The classic tool for doing this is sed .. but you could also use perl
> -ie 's/Bad JS//' *.html

or, recursively,

  $ perl -pi -e 's/fred/barney/' $(find . -name "*.html")

or some variation thereof.

rday
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