Unix find and replace recursively?
You could use other characters besides /. For example:
perl -e "s|FIND|REPLACE|g;" -pi $(find path/to/DIRECTORY -type f)More info in http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Regexp-Quote-Like-Operators
In unix it goes something like this:
find "$path" -type f -print0|xargs -0 \ perl -p -i -e "s/term/differenterm/g;"This makes use of find and xargs to find all files in a subtree and pass them to perl for processing.
Note, if you want to use /'s in your regex, you can either escape them with a \:
perl -p -i -e "s/\/source\/path/\/dest\/path/g;"or use a different delimiter than / for the regex itself:
perl -p -i -e "s|/source/path|/dest/path|g;"Note also, there are other ways of running a program on a subtree recursively, but they do not all properly handle filenames with spaces or other special charaters.