Posted by JDS on 06/20/05 17:08

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:07:28 +0100, David Dorward wrote:

> find /start/directory -name \*.txt | xargs perl -i.bak -p -n -e
> 's/\n/<br>\n/'

pipe to xargs? Why not just use the "-exec" flag for find?

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