Comments on: Sympa tip: changing domains

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:25:27 +0000

Thanks, David, post is fixed. FYI, I think my actual replace was just onenw/groundwire, but I realized after the fact that I should probably be more precise here.

By: David Glick

David Glick — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:28:25 +0000

Gah, wordpress stripped my backslash out of that comment. There should be a backslash before the period in “onenw.org” within the regular expression.

By: David Glick

David Glick — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:27:34 +0000

Remember that a period in a regular expression means “match any character”, so you probably want ‘s/onenw.org/groundwire.org/g’ (in this case it’s probably unlikely that you had cases with onenwXorg for some X other than a period, but still…)

Also, it’s worth noting that with perl’s inplace substitution you can optionally specify an extension for backup copies of the original files…e.g. perl -pi.bak -e etc…