Jason Wozniak wrote: > I was attempting to produce the file list by piping the output of a > find command. See my previous email for the problem I'm having with > that... > > I guess the question I would have is how you are producing the list in > "myfiles"? > > in my case I suppose I could go to the directory that has the > glog.log files and say I wanted to replace bob with charlie I could > do this on the command line without needing to cat a file with a list > of the files I wanted to modify: > > #perl -p -i.bak -w -e 's/bob/charlie/g' glog.log* > > This is straight from the book "Learning Perl" pg. 231 > > If nobody can tell me why, when I redirect the standard output stream > of the find command into my program, I lose the first argument, then > I guess I'll have to do the same thing you did with cat... > > It sounds like we are both trying to produce something a little more > robust that could be used in a variety of situations without having > to create a new input file every time.
See my response to your other post Jason. And Richard, if you're trying to do something like this, i.e. processing a list of files which can be defined by a wildcarded filename, then take a look there as well. Cheers, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
