Re: [PLUG] search and replace multiple files?

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:09:27PM -0800, John Fiore wrote:
>       perl -pie 's/foo/bar/' file1
> 
> I get the error:
>      Can't open perl script "s/foo/bar/": No such file
> or directory

Try perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/' <files>

Parsing of -e as part of a block of switches appears to be broken,
at least with my copy of 5.6.1.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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