Finding Replacing Filenames & text inside files using perl
A few “Bash Tricks” for the peeps
First up:
Find & replace filenames
This finds file that match Somethinghtml.html and renames to Something.html (HTTP Track users will recognize these two examples as fixes to common naming problems when scraping a site.) Note you can change the mask of files searched by changing the find mask at the end of the line.
<code>
perl -p -i -e ‘s/(.*)html\.html/\1.html/g;’ `find ./ -name ‘*.html’`
</code>
Then Find & Replace text inside of files:
This finds things that have been incorrectly prefixed with dev.mistcat.com and removes that prefix so that this 2112.js file can load from a remote domain correctly. Note you can change the find mask at the beginning to restrict or un-restrict your searched files for text replacement.
<code>
find . -name ‘*.html’ | perl -pi -e ‘s/http:\/\/dev\.mistcat\.com\/(www\.dwin1\.com\/2112\.js)/http:\/\/\
1/g;’
</code>
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