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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to find and remove characters Post 302162477 by Zerby on Tuesday 29th of January 2008 05:24:17 AM
Old 01-29-2008
Script to find and remove characters
Hi.

I have many files in a folder, and even more in the subfolders. I need a script that finds and removes certain characters (them being /n in this one) in the files in the folder and it's subfolders.

So, could someone write me a script that works in Linux, does this:

Searchs for "/n" in all files in the folder and it's subfolders.
Removes the "/n" from all the files

Thank you VERY much, I'm really a newbie in these things and I need this badly.
 

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test::folder

Test::Folder(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 Test::Folder(3pm)

NAME

       Test::Folder - test folder attributes

SYNOPSIS

	 use Test::More ...;
	 use Test::Folder;

DESCRIPTION

       This modules provides a collection of test utilities for folder attributes.  Use it in combination with Test::More in your test programs.

FUNCTIONS

   folder_exists_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder exists, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_exists_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder does not exist, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_empty_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is empty (contains no files or subfolders), and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_empty_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is not empty (contains any files or subfolders), and not ok otherwise.

   folder_readable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is readable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_readable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is not readable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_writable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is writable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_writable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is not writable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_executable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is executable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_executable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is not executable, and not ok otherwise.

TO DO

       There are probably some more folder attributes that can be tested.  If you need them, please ask (or better yet, contribute code!).

AUTHOR

       Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn, "mthurn at cpan.org", <http://tinyurl.com/nn67z>.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-test-dir at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Dir>.  I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on
       your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

	 perldoc Test::Folder

       You can also look for information at:

       o   RT: CPAN's request tracker

	   <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Test-Dir>

       o   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

	   <http://annocpan.org/dist/Test-Dir>

       o   CPAN Ratings

	   <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Test-Dir>

       o   Search CPAN

	   <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Dir>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2011-02-20							 Test::Folder(3pm)
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