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Maybe Autotrader has hundreds of thousands of template, CSS, and JS files with those paths hardcoded. Imagine the hell it would be to work on that website.

Even so, you could fix everything with a one line Perl command.

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I would love to see an example of something like this.

Please.

I've seen backends that were that horrible. Updates were often done via regex's.

That's basically half of my day to day at the moment, that's why I'm wondering

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