Re: regular expression search and replace

--- Michael Barton <[email protected]> wrote:

> [red ~/test/]$ perl -pe 's/REMOVE_BIT\(/remove_bit(&/g' -i *.c
> 
> ...I'd make a backup first.
> 
> Oh, and real men write their code with echo.  Or maybe cat.
> echo '#include <stdio.h>' >> test.c
> 
> --Palrich.


Actually if you do 

perl -pe 's/REMOVE_BIT\(/remove_bit(&/g' -i.BAK *.c

it will automatically backup the files, appending a .BAK extension.

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version 3.12
GCS/IT/L/S/O d-(+) s++: a-(?) C++++$ UBLS++++$ 
P+++(--)$ L++++$ E--- W+$ N !o K? w(---) !O 
M- !V PS+ PE(-) Y+ PGP->+ t+ 5 X++ R(+) tv+@ 
b+(++) !DI+++ D G(-) e>+++ h---() r+++ y+++(++)
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------


	
		
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