Just to clarify the command: find -iname "*.*htm*" -o -iname "*.stm" | \ xargs egrep -l \ "centernet\.jhuccp\.org/cgi-bin/mail2friend|cgi\.jhuccp\.org/cgi-bin/mail2friend" | \
xargs perl -pi~ -e"s?http://.*\.jhuccp\.org(/cgi-bin/mail2friend)?\1?g;" --------------------- first off, why are you including the egrep statement? if it is to weed out files only containing the line: centernet.jhuccp.org/cgi-bin/mail2friend or cgi.jhuccp.org/cgi-bin/mail2friend why not do this in your perl script, and leave out the egrep (split across two lines for readibility): perl -pi~ -e's?http://(?:centernet|cgi)\.jhuccp\.org /cgi-bin/mail2friend?/cgi-bin/mail2friend?g;' Also for perl one-liners, it's usually best to enclose them in single quotes, and then use q() or qq() inside the one-liner for single and double quotes, respectively. Also, the backreference is unnecessary as your captured string is just a literal string. Let me know if this helps your problem. Luke > It seems to run fine and changes many files, but when I go searching > for the string that was supposed to be changed, I keep finding more > file. Many were changed correctly, but some were not. > > It strikes me that maybe perl can't take too many arguments at once. > There are options to the xarg command that allow no more than so many > arguments at a time to be passed. Is this what's wrong? What should I > set the number of arguments to? > > Thanks for trying to help me with this. > > -Kevin Zembower > > ----- > E. Kevin Zembower > Unix Administrator > Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs > 111 Market Place, Suite 310 > Baltimore, MD 21202 > 410-659-6139 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
