On May 29, Me said:
>If you will allow perl to make use of temporary files
>behind the scenes (which is normally perfectly ok),
>Cookbook recipe 7.9 is a whole heck of a lot
>simpler. As a command line one liner:
>
> perl -pie 's/a/p/g' try.txt foo.txt
>
>will go thru files try.txt and foo.txt and rewrite them
>with every occurence of 'a' replaced with 'p'.
>Try it -- you'll like it!
Actually, it'll say:
Can't open perl script "s/a/p/g": No such file or directory
You need to do
perl -pi -e 's/a/p/g' ...
The reason is because -i takes a string after it of the extension to use,
so Perl thought you wanted to use "e" as the suffix of the backup files,
and there was no -e option found.
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