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Using command line to replace text in all files in a folder?

I need to replace the text in all files in one of my folders, and I use Perl, but I get an error.

This is what I run:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/<START>/<url><loc>http://www.mysite.com/page//g' *

Basically, I just need to replace

 <START>

with this:

 <url><loc>http://www.mysite.com/page/

And this is the error I get:

 Illegal division by zero at -e line 1, <> line 1.

Can someone tell me what should i do? I also tried several other methods, but nobody seems to work ... I really need this to be done through the command line, so that it is faster because there are more than ten million lines. Thanks!

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You need to avoid the slash. s/<START>/<url><loc>http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/page\//g

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In your replacement text, tags are designated as delimiters, as well as a separation operator. You can either exit slases as \ / where necessary, or use alternative delimiters. Try:

 perl -pi.bak -e 's#<START>#<url><loc>http://www.mysite.com/page/#g' *
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1443549/

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