"José A. Ferrer" wrote: > I have a bunch of old xBase *.prg text files. I need to replace the > sentence ON ERROR or on error with *ON ERROR in all *.prg text files in a > given directory. > How can it be done in Perl ?
Use this from the command line: perl -pi.bak -e 's/\bON ERROR\b/*ON ERROR/ig' *.prg it will process all *.prg files in current directory, making backups of originals in .bak files. Is that what you need? - RaFaL Pocztarski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
