http://snipplr.com/favorites/noah/tags/perl Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:32:45 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/10540/search-and-replace-with-perl/ Replace all the occurrences of a string with a replacement in the supplied files.

]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:22:35 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/10540/search-and-replace-with-perl/ http://snipplr.com/view/5078/perl-search-and-replace-oneliner-with-xargs-0/ \Q...\E perl quoting means no ugly escaping in the regex. find's -print0 with xargs -0 is the secret to handling files with spaces in their names.

]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:02:45 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/5078/perl-search-and-replace-oneliner-with-xargs-0/ http://snipplr.com/view/4542/count-directory-entries-in-given-directories/ In response to a very simplistic solution suggestion using Shell, here is a basic version of what I use. The advantage of the solution below is that it is supposed to be much faster on directories with many files (I regularly use its full-blown version on directories with tens and hundreds of thousands of files).

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