replace - substitutes text
Use perls regular expressions on a list of files.
Example:
replace --search 'foo' --replace 'bar' --recurse --log *
Replace is a utility to substitute text in a bunch of files. It is used also to demonstrate the use of perl module Startup. You can use perls regular expressions as search and replace strings.
usage: $PROGNAME {--option [arg]} file(s)
search s search pattern replace s replace pattern mode s substitute mode (i=ignore case, g=global) default g log write a logfile gimmick replace pattern shall be "gimmicked" src_base s Regard this as start directory in relative mode dest_base s Store output files based at this directory from_stdin Take input from stdin to_stdout Write output to stdout filemode s New files get access mode s (default 0600) dirmode s New directories get access mode s (default 0700) overwrite Overwrite existing files recurse Operate recursively on directories relative Store files relatively to destdir when in recurse mode suffix s Give output files this suffix
Martin Schwartz <schwartz@cs.tu-berlin.de>.
