Hi,

just how powerful is this option?

I wish to edit a bunch of .html files inside a directory and basically searching and replacing html coding.

To do this, I plan on using:

perl -pi -e 's/http://www.mydomain.com/script.pl?key=3/http://www.mydomain.com/script.pl?key=4/' /home/name/public_html/html/*.html

Now would the above work if I was to run the command via cron job on a shared hosting environment? I also may be replacing html with quotes inside the search pattern. Do I cancel those out like I would when writing in perl?

For ex:

perl -pi -e 's/<font color=\"blue\">/<font color=\"red\">' /home/name/
+public_html/html/*.html
[download]

I'm going to do this later on with trial and error, but want to make sure if I'm on the right track with what I'm trying to do.

Thanks.

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