[Gllug] I know this is a bit of a n00b question

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:56:18PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> But I want to do search and replace on the command line with a whole load of 
> perl files (they have hard coded passwords etc in them and I am releasing the 
> code under the GPL) without writing a perl script to do it.

Minix used to have a nice program called gres ('grep and substitute') which
solved this.

Anyway, this is what I use:

	perl -pi.bak -e 's/oldpassword/replacement/g' `find -name '*.pl'`

(Change to use xargs as appropriate).

Rich.

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