Hi

I have moved my website from a server to another one and I have to do a mass replace in all the files in my cgi-bin directory (and in all the directories wich are in cgi-bin)

I have to replace the following string :
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

by the following one :
#!/usr/bin/perl

How to do it ? via a shell command? if yes what is this command ?

Regards
FMP

In SSH/Telnet, type;

cd /path/to/your/admin
grep -r -l '#!/usr/local/bin/perl' .

...and when you are happy this is the list of files you want to modify, then run;

perl -p -i -e 's|\Q#!/usr/local/bin/perl|#!/usr/bin/perl|g' `grep -r -l '#!/usr/local/bin/perl' .`

Hope that works

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txs

it works fine

FMP

Hello,

I want to change paths in all cgi files in my account. Can I just use the following command from root to change paths in all my cgi files, like so?

perl -p -i -e 's|/home/www/site/path/|/home/www/newsite/newpath/|g' *.cgi

Will that work?

Thanks in advance!!!

Nope, you would need:


Doing *.cgi would only find files in that same folder =)

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Andy,

How about if I also want to change paths to all my files in my WWW directory?

Thanks!

Just 'cd' to your www folder, with something like:


..and then run the other command (the "grep" one)

Grep will only run inside the fodler you are in.

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