How to mass Search & Replace in text files.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:26:16AM -0400, Lance F. Squire 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?

How about:

find . -name "*.html" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/BAD JS//'

I didn't test it, but it looks OK to me.

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Len Sorensen
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