Imaster - 11:21 am on May 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

I am looking for a search-replace software (something like ReplaceEm), but for linux/unix. I have tons of html files in many directories on linux server and cannot make changes locally and upload every now and then.

Is there a software available which would let me do a multi line search replace over html files recursively over many sub directories.

One I found is RPL which is excellent, but I don't know if it can handle multiline text.

The kind of replacement I am looking for is like:

Search for:

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Do you want an email <br>
notification of new replies?
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And replace to:

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Do you want an email notification of new replies?
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I would appreciate some positive responses.

[edited by: caine at 9:18 am (utc) on May 19, 2008]
[edit reason] no url drops please [/edit]