On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote: > Larry Hall schrieb: > > At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote: > >>I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in > >>a bunch (3500+) of files. > >> > >>That should be an easy one.. :) > > > > This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As a result, it's off-topic for this > > list. > > But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing > via perl -i would be cygwin specific. > Anyone investigated this lately?
What on Earth are you talking about? What inability? WFM (see below). Igor $ cygcheck -cd perl Cygwin Package Information Package Version perl 5.8.2-1 $ ls $ cat <<EOF > sometext > blah > blah and more blah > still blah > ok, done with blah > EOF $ ls sometext $ cat sometext blah blah and more blah still blah ok, done with blah $ perl -i -pe 's/blah/stuff/g' sometext $ ls sometext sometext.bak $ cat sometext stuff stuff and more stuff still stuff ok, done with stuff $ -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/