Originally Posted by drjones

For a slightly safer version of that command, that will back up your files, and only try to modify .html files, try this.. should run from the document root of your webserver.


perl -pi'.orig' -e 's/$FIND/$REPLACE/g' `find ./ -name "*.html"`

It will back up the all the original files with a .orig extension as it runs, so if you make a mistake with the regex you can start over. The files with the text substitution will have the original file name.