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Old 05-05-2011
Seach and Replace
Our email address is changing and I need to update 4000 htm pages.
I was told I command was something like this
Eg)

find docs/700_799/ -name "*.htm" -type f | xargs perl -pi -e 's/\/company-information\/legal-and-regulatory/\/legal-and-regulatory/g'

Is there away of not changing the date of the file?

I do not want the file date to be modified unless a change was made to that file.

I've tried the above command but it modifies the date of the file whether or not there has been an actual change.

Or should I be using a different command?Smilie
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Old 05-05-2011
Why do you have everything wrapped in helv and veranda font tags? Why not just use a single code tag to denote code?

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Originally Posted by mchelle_99
Is there away of not changing the date of the file?
No, but I think you could use touch to restore the file time later, depending on your system. What is your system? What is your shell?
 
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