Michael D. Bevilacqua on 26 Dec 2004 18:13:28 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] awk question


On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:12:52AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> One way to avoid the temp file is to use Perl instead of AWK:
> 
> for i in `find . -name '*.html'`; do perl -pi -e 's/207\.106\.32\.241/ancss.org/g' $i; done
> 
> This is also a bit more efficient since it's only reading each file
> once instead of twice as in your method.
> 
> See perldoc perlrun for documentation on perl's -p  and -i parameters.

Yes, that's the ticket. Thanks Walt.

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Regards,

Michael D. Bevilacqua


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