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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:10:05 -0400 (EDT)
Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 
> --- Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
> 
> > > #find /dir/to/htmlfile -name *.html -exec perl -p -i -e
> > > "s/nagual.st/nagual.nl/g;" {} \;
> > 
> > You should escape the * that you pass to find:
> > 
> > -name \*.html
> 
> Or
> 
> -name "*.html"

Yes, yes, they both work ;-)
The files are changed and it went very fast.
Thank you for your suggestions. And I have written down this
"change-files-rule" into my notebook. It is powerful!

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