Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 00:23:15 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: fbsdq <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: find syntax Message-ID: <20060705002315.c2242af1.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20060704191005.34812.qmail@web60016.mail.yahoo.com> References: <200607040803.k6483e9A029133@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20060704191005.34812.qmail@web60016.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:10:05 -0400 (EDT)
Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> --- Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
>
> > > #find /dir/to/htmlfile -name *.html -exec perl -p -i -e
> > > "s/nagual.st/nagual.nl/g;" {} \;
> >
> > You should escape the * that you pass to find:
> >
> > -name \*.html
>
> Or
>
> -name "*.html"
Yes, yes, they both work ;-)
The files are changed and it went very fast.
Thank you for your suggestions. And I have written down this
"change-files-rule" into my notebook. It is powerful!
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