Sorry, my bad. Forgot the -e switch...
perl -pi.bak -e 's|ReplaceThis|WithThis|' *
Rob
-Original Message-
From: Hanson, Rob
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:04 PM
To: 'Perl'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Search and replace pattern in a file
I think you wil
I think you will like this, it does exactly whay you described...
perl -pi.bak 's|ReplaceThis|WithThis|' *
This does everything you want, AND makes a backup of each file. You can
only perform a substitution on a single line though (AFAIK).
See perldoc perlrun for all of the details.
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