Replace text inside a file

February 27, 2004

To replace all occurances of “shtml” with “php” inside of all of the *.php files in a directory.
$ perl -pi.bak -e 's/shtml/php/' *.php
See: hacks.oreilly.com: Global Search and Replace with Perl for more examples.

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