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perl -i.bak -p -e 's/searchpattern/replaceme<wbr />ntpattern/<wbr />' &nbsp;*.html */*.html.<br />
another option is to use find<br />
find . -name &quot;*.hml&quot; | while read a; do<br />
perl -i.bak -pe 's/&lt;search&gt;/&lt;replace&gt;/g' $a<br />
done<br />
The -i.bak will create a backup file of the one being changed and saved as file.html.bak<br />
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find . -name &quot;*.html&quot; -exec perl -i.bak -ep 's/pattern/replacemenet/g'<wbr /> {}\;<br />
could work provided there aren't too many files.<br />
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perl -i.bak -p -e 's/searchpattern/replacementpattern/'  *.html */*.html.
another option is to use find
find . -name "*.hml" | while read a; do
perl -i.bak -pe 's/<search>/<replace>/g' $a
done
The -i.bak will create a backup file of the one being changed and saved as file.html.bak

find . -name "*.html" -exec perl -i.bak -ep 's/pattern/replacemenet/g' {}\;
could work provided there aren't too many files.



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Thanks for your solution, however it does not cover files in its subdirectories. <br />
<br />
When I tried this command: find . -name &quot;*.html&quot; -exec perl -i.bak -ep 's/pattern/replacemenet/g'<wbr /> {}\;<br />
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I get an error message: find: missing argument to '-exec'<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />

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Thanks for your solution, however it does not cover files in its subdirectories.

When I tried this command: find . -name "*.html" -exec perl -i.bak -ep 's/pattern/replacemenet/g' {}\;

I get an error message: find: missing argument to '-exec'

Regards,


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I'm trying to write a simple command that will perform search/replace for a word in all html (*.htm,*.html) files in all sub-folders.<br />
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I wrote this command, but it will only search within folder: <br />
<br />
perl -pe 's/&lt;search&gt;/&lt;replace&gt;/g' *.htm*<br />
<br />
Thanks,
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I'm trying to write a simple command that will perform search/replace for a word in all html (*.htm,*.html) files in all sub-folders.

I wrote this command, but it will only search within folder: 

perl -pe 's/<search>/<replace>/g' *.htm*

Thanks,

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